The Blues
The blues is a genre of music that originated in the African-American communities of the southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th...
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Boogie-Woogie
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Boogie-woogie, is a heavily percussive style of blues piano in which the right-hand plays riffs (syncopated, repeating phrases) against a driving pattern of repeating eighth...
Jerry Wexler
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Jerry Wexler, (Gerald Wexler), American record producer and music journalist (born Jan. 10, 1917, New York, N.Y.—died Aug. 15, 2008, Sarasota, Fla.), coined the term...
Soul Music
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Soul music is a term adopted to describe black popular music in the United States as it evolved from the 1950s to the ’60s and ’70s....
Otis Redding
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Otis Redding, born on September 9, 1941, in Dawson, Georgia, was a pivotal figure in the evolution of soul music during the 1960s. His influential...
Jimmy Cliff
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Jimmy Cliff is a Jamaican musician, singer, and actor who has made significant contributions to the world of reggae music and has achieved international fame....
Rhythm and Blues
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Rhythm and Blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African-American communities in the United States in the 1940s....
Lee “Scratch” Perry
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Lee “Scratch” Perry, byname of Rainford Hugh Perry, (born March 28, 1936, Kendal, Jamaica), Jamaican producer, songwriter, singer, and disc jockey who helped reshape reggae...
Toots and the Maytals
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Toots and the Maytals is a legendary Jamaican musical group that has made significant contributions to the development and popularization of reggae music. Formed in...
Reggae
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Reggae, style of popular music that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s and quickly emerged as the country’s dominant music. By the 1970s it...