Chicago is the largest city in the Midwest and as of 2008 is the 3rd largest city in the entire country. The city has a rich musical heritage including symphony orchestra and opera. Blues, gospel, soul and jazz music have been represented in Chicago for many, many years.
There are several Chicago Blues clubs because the [...]
Nothing says romance quite like great R&B music. Rhythm and Blues is the ideal genre of music to be a perfect accompaniment to any wedding celebration. Someone once said that a wedding without love songs is like eating cornflakes sans the milk. R&B is well known for their soulful ballads and this can deepen the [...]
R&B ringtones continue to be some of the most popular and most downloaded ring tones in the market. They consistently top the ringtone charts and message boards are often clogged with requests for R&B songs. What is the cause of R&B’s appeal?
Short for rhythm and blues, the term was first used by Billboard magazine’s Jerry [...]
What’s the deal with so many white music artists singing black music? Why do white artists who sing black music get better promotion than black artists? Why is R&B music now synonymous with Hip-Hop?
These are some of the hot topics that often come up in private conversations with my industry associates and colleagues. I will [...]
In the early 1970s, the cultural movement of hip hop music was born. Hip hop’s fast paced music style is made of two parts; the rhythmic delivery of rap and the use ofinstrumentation by a DJ. Hip hop music also brought with it a fashion of its own, the fashion helped to represent this newly [...]
What made Jewish contribution unique in the development of the 1950s vocal group sound and rock and roll in general, was the ability to extract and internalize the African –American experience and make their music mainstream. Jewish contribution to doo-wop lies primarily in the area of song writing, and the overall entrepreneurial music business. Unlike [...]
Since the early 1960s doo-wop has remained a regional white ethnic genre within a subculture. Non-blacks have taken the rhythm and blues vocal group sound and have made it their own. Almost all oldies shows that features groups of the 1950s has a majority of white fans. Very few African-Americans are represented in the audience. [...]
Influenced by rhythm and blues, doop-wop was a vocalized harmonized genre using phonetic syllables (doo-wop) without obvious meanings to bring in rhythm and harmonic arrangements. Primarily an African American music genre, it became popular throughout the 50’s and the 60’s as a separate genre.
Thinking about Doo Wop at the time, one had to think also [...]