PlumX Metrics
Embed PlumX Metrics

Everybody Talkin' 'Bout a Spoonful: The Blues, from America to England and Back

2011
  • 0
    Citations
  • 480
    Usage
  • 0
    Captures
  • 0
    Mentions
  • 16
    Social Media
Metric Options:   Counts1 Year3 Year

Metrics Details

Thesis / Dissertation Description

Though the blues are typically considered one of the few uniquely American musical styles, a group of British performers in the 1960s championed the blues to mainstream audiences on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. This essay explores the journey of the blues from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago and then across the Atlantic to England. It examines the various changes the genre underwent throughout this journey as well as aspects of the blues that remained static. Utilizing the song "Spoonful " as a common thread between these locations, this essay details how changes in popular opinion , advancements in technology, and sheer force of will on the part of its devotees brought the blues to the forefront of 1 960s popular music scenes.

Provide Feedback

Have ideas for a new metric? Would you like to see something else here?Let us know