Chapter 2: Genres and styles
ultimately
heavy metal. Perhaps the most important contribution of British blues was the
surprising re-exportation of American blues back to America, where, in the wake
of the success of bands like the Rolling Stones and Fleetwood Mac, white
audiences began to look again at black blues musicians like Muddy Waters, Howl
in' Wolf and John Lee Hooker, who suddenly began to appeal to middle class
white Americans. The result was a re-evaluation of the blues in America which
enabled white Americans much more easily to become blues musicians, opening the
door to Southern rock and the development of Texas blues musicians like Stevie
Ray Vaughan.
Boogie-woogie
The origin of the term boogie-woogie is
unknown, according to Webster's Third New International Dictionary. The Oxford
English Dictionary states that the word is a reduplication of boogie, which was
used for rent parties as early as 1913.
In 1901, "Hoogie Boogie" appeared
in the title of published sheet music. This is the first known instance where a
redoubling of the word "Boogie" occurs in the title of published
music. As far as audio recordings are concerned, the first appearance of
"Boogie" in the title of a recording appears to be a "blue
cylinder" recording made by Edison of the "American Quartet"
performing "That Syncopated Boogie Boo" in 1913.
The earliest documented inquiries into the
geographical origin of boogie-woogie occurred in the late 1930s when oral
histories from the oldest living Americans of both African and European
descent, revealed a broad consensus that boogie-woogie piano was first played
in Texas in the early 1870s. Additional citations place the origins of
boogie-woogie in the Piney Woods of northeast Texas. "The first Negroes
who played what is called boogie-woogie, or house-rent music, and attracted
attention in city slums where other Negroes held jam sessions, were from Texas.
And all the Old-time Texans, black or white, are agreed that boogie piano
players were first heard in the lumber and turpentine camps, where nobody was
at home at all. The style dates from the early 1870s.
In January 2010, Dr. John Tennison
summarized his research into the origins of boogie-woogie with the conclusion
that Marshall, Texas is "the municipality whose boundaries are most likely
to encompass or be closest to the point on the map which is the geographic
center of gravity for all instances of Boogie Woogie performance between 1870
and 1880
On May 13, 2010, the Marshall City
Commission enacted an official declaration naming Marshall as the
"birthplace" of boogie-woogie music, and embarked on a program to
encourage additional historical research and to stimulate interest in and appreciation
for the early African-
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