Argumentative Essay On Cab Calloway

I think it’s cool that the precursors of rhythm and blues came directly from jazz and blues, which overlapped in the 20s, 30s, and beyond. In reading about those eras, the name Cab Calloway came up, whom I was already familiar with. Cab Calloway in learning about through jazz was born on December 25, 1907, and was most famous for his vocal ability. He quickly rose to fame with his performance at the Cotton Club “Minnie the Moocher”. Just like Duke Ellington, Calloway was a bandleader and was one of the most popular entertainers of the 30s and 40s. In speaking of the 40s, Louis Jordan, aka as the king of jukebox, dominated the top five guides of the R&B charts. Mr. Jordan had two of the top five songs that were based on the boogie-woogie theme in the 1940s. This brings me to the year 1950, were blacks were the first ones who started buying R&B discs. Sales around the discs were predominantly being sold in black markets, and there were no sales amongst whites or

Some great musicians during this area were Johnny Otis, The Clovers, and DJ Alan Freed, Little Richard, and Roy Brown just to name a few all contributed to making R&B what is now. During the 60s, which is my favorite era of the R&B genre, soul music stayed true to its R&B roots when other musicians took different paths. In areas like New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia were the parts that the music focused more on vocal interplay and smooth productions. In others like Detroit, Motown concentrated more on inventing a pop-oriented sound often heard in gospel, R&B, and rock and roll. However, in the south, the music became tougher and more complex relying on raw vocals, syncopated rhythms, and horns. The 90s is where R&B began adding components of hip hop under its belt and it was there rapping and singing took off to what we now hear it as from the 2000s to