The Roots of American Popular Music (Stolen Black Culture)

This is a short video that I did for my Rhetoric, Forgetting and Memory class. My paper is about American Popular Culture and how people have forgotten how African American Culture has heavily influenced current popular culture. (this is video is only the music aspect of my project)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• elvis
• presley
• black
• culture
• pat
• boone
• big
• mama
• thornton
• hound dog
• joe
• turner
• fats
• domino
• little
• richard
• louie
• bill
• haley
• comets
• do
• wop
• 1950's
• music
• blues
• tuttie
• fruitte
• rockabilly
• stolen
• steal
• african
• american

[MrSparks2]

Many singers use songs from other song writers under a contract to share the profits if they can make it a hit. It's like drilling an oil well, where once in a while someone hits the big one. As for Big Moma's representation of "Hound Dog", which is a classic, she just didn't happen to get the traction that Elvis got with it. Happens to the best of them. Elvis loved R&B.

[ladycashUT]

@MrSparks2 You are right. There are legal contracts that allow you to share profts. This was made Legal through the US Copyright Act of 1909. However, in the 1950's and 60's African Americans were still not treated equally. Copyright laws were made but actually following those laws was a whole different story.

[ladycashUT]

@MrSparks Due to segregation, Jim Crow laws, and racial intolerance, many people of the white community could easily take other peoples music and get away with it due to our unjust system iof the past.

You are also correct when you say that Big Mama Thorton didn't get the same traction that Elvis got. However, there are reasons for this: inequality

[sampson3121]

stealing at it's best lol

and it doesn't matter what u all say it's all history and dated and recorded.

[sampson3121]

@mrcjrowe Mamma Thornton was the first to record the hit song "Hound Dog" in 1952.[1] The song was #1 on the Billboard R&B charts for seven weeks in 1953.[2] The B-side was "They Call Me Big Mama," and the single sold almost two million copies.[3] Three years later, Elvis Presley recorded his version, based on a version performed by Freddie Bell and the Bellboys.

[ladycashUT]

@mrcjrowe I acknowledge that there is always two sides to every story. I truly believe that there are some people who stole other peoples music and gave no credit to the original composers or singers. I also realize that other people were fair when it came to covering other peoples songs. However, it erks my nerves to see people choose to remain ignorant on the fact that in the 1950's/60's African Americans were treated very unfairly and in unjust ways in all aspects in life including music.

[ladycashUT]

@mrcjrowe FYI, I took a class at the University of Texas @ Austin for an entire semester and did extensive research on this topic. My topic focused on how many Americans have forgotten where much of our popular culture has come from. I did a total of 5 research papers on this topic and recieved an outstanding grade in the class becasue of it. This video reflects only a small percentage of what I did for the class. Before you blame someone of not doing research, you should do YOUR RESEARCH.

[mrcjrowe]

@MrSparks2 Thank you for pointing this out because too many people are super quick to Jump on the band wagon and accuse people like Elvis Presley of being racist, and stealing black people's music. But did Mama Thorton steal white mans music when she sang Hound Dog, or when Michael Jackson sang Blame It On The Boogie ??? Can you see the double standard of some twisted people out there ? What people would be wise to do in future is RESEARCH because you accuse.

[ladycashUT]

@MrSparks2 Oh ok. Thats interesting.

[ladycashUT]

@bwbhsk It's Him