2. Blues Music
• Working Songs
• Personal Struggle
• Migration to the City – Electric Guitar
3.
4. Folk Music
• Woody Guthrie
• “Do, Re, Mi”
• “Going Down the Road (I Ain’t
Going To Be Treated This Way)”
– Labeled “Un-American”
during McCarthy Era
– Influenced later Folk artists,
such as Bob Dylan, Pete
Seeger, and Bruce
Springsteen
5. 1950s
• Rock and Roll!
• Integrated Audiences
and Bands
• For the first time,
Teenagers held
buying power.
• Mostly Capricious
6.
7. 1960s: Folk
• Music becomes much more serious
• Bob Dylan
• “Masters of War”
• “Blowin’ in the Wind”
• First to connect with Civil Rights Movement
• Bob Dylan; Pete Seeger; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul, and
Mary.