MUSC 171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Big Mama Thornton, Chubby Checker, Big Joe Turner
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Week 5: (cid:1005)9(cid:1009)(cid:1004)s co(cid:448)er versio(cid:374)s: the case of (cid:862)hou(cid:374)d dog(cid:863) Histor(cid:455) of (cid:862)big ma(cid:373)a(cid:863) thornton: originally she was a gospel singer, names: big mama, other names that mentioned/ nicknames about. African american singers: little richard, blind lemon jeffson, big joe. Naming was important for white audiences: hound dog was written by a songwriting team, mike stoller and jerry. Strong backbeat: verse: 13 measures, (meant to do 12 but not concerned about being locked in, chorus: 12 measures, guitar solo 36 measures. Mama thornton ends up dying so poor, copyright laws not in place. Migratio(cid:374)(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:449)hat that involved was that (remember during the wars people coming from south to the north in trains), there were millions of african americans who left. South not only to go get jobs, but to escape racism of southern us: 1. 3 millions black people going north.
