Music Scenes: Location and Music Trends

It’s All About The Gumbo

A Brief History of Popular Music in

America

New Orleans

• Blues, Jazz and the Birth of American Music

Why New Orleans: the Gumbo

• New Orleans was a very important port city in 1900

• music and culture mixing

• Creole, Cajun

• blues, folk songs

• rag time, funeral music

Birth of Jazz and Blues

• Jazz starts here but in the 20s moves on to New York with Louis Armstrong

• Blues music moves up the Mississippi and starts being recorded

Memphis Scenes

• Memphis is often cited as the birth place of Rock’n Roll - based out of Sun Records

• Also home to the Soul based Stax in the 60s

Liverpool

• Why does Liverpool (and London) come to the rescue of American Rock n Roll?

• The British Invasion starts with the Beatles

• Billy J Kramer, Cilla Black, Gerry & the Pacemakers and The Searchers.

Seattle

who?

• Nirvana

• Pearl Jam

• Soundgarden

• Mudhoney

• Melvins

• Alice in Chains

Toronto?