A Simple Guide to American Music History

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[@felipee.buddmeyer1592]

Just to let everybody know, bossanova is not a mix between jazz and latin music, bossanova is actually a subgender of samba which is a Brasillian style of music

[@garlandowls1134]

We should all thank African Americans for creating Blues, Jazz, Rock, R&B, Soul, Funk, Disco, House music, Techno, Hip-Hop, Go-Go, Bounce music, Trap, Drill, Crunk, Punk, etc.,

[@AnonymousC-lm6tc]

Shut up.

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

This is false.

[@Star38-zr5tw]

@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerekWhat part? Because most, if not all, is true

[@italianbread6002]

Thank you for this need this for a slide show

[@Vicnsi]

Hi Allysia, A gazillion thanks for taking the time (and hugely admirable effort) to make this video 👍. It's always so refreshing to listen to you talk about 'other' styles other than 'classical' music 😃. I enjoy classical for sure, but really love Jazz and Pop music as well!

[@arthurellismusic3002]

Nice overview! Love your history videos, they're nice and clear and help put different musical genres in context. Can't wait for the specific genre videos, I really liked the way you follow the greats of each genre in your earlier clips and give some of their personal lives too, I think its really important to understanding their music, and its fun too! Keep up the great work!

[@chuatsinli]

Thank you for this video! I love the overview and how chronological you have done it, and the smooth branching to Classical evolution too! Great work!

[@curtpiazza1688]

Cool video! 😂 Thanx!

[@jimobrien84]

Wow I’m glad to have stumbled upon this. Looks like you’ve covered some of these genres more in depth since then so i’ll have to check those out along with your classical music history videos. It’s serendipitous to find this channel in general because I’m currently pricing out digital pianos to begin learning piano as a function of better understanding music theory in support of my guitar playing

[@Juan6Meses]

Keep those coming please!

[@ilhatap]

Having a ball here, researching, trying to make a paralell between the history of US music and the history of Tap Dance. This came in very helpfull. THank you for you work!

[@Streux]

Great lesson!

[@thepoprockcoach]

Great job!! Really informative!

[@rabebonskyjoe5193]

Dense, elaborate and very interesting overview. I am curios and listening bossa nova now:) (never heard before)

[@voltgene9055]

Amazing video! I am not from America, nor from any English speaking countries. And I was very interested in American Music History, so thanks for making this video.

[@hizbawiginbarginbarghinda3872]

Brilliant and Awesome. I subscribed.

[@tebla2074]

great video! obviously can't cover everything but the evolution from music concrete and experimental electronic music through to house and other dance music genres is another thread

[@mariadiangelo4197]

Two of the things I love: America and music

[@amitendradiwakar636]

Informative and helpful for who knows nothing about American music culture

[@erinminard4530]

You are awesome! These are fantastic videos. I am using them for my music students! Keep em comin! :) Do you have a Ragtime video?

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

Appalacian was influenced by english folk too!

[@XXmatt18XX]

Thanks for the history lesson!! Would love a in-depth jazz video on Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Bill Evans...

[@x99ribs]

I want to see a Bill Evans biopic. Very interesting man...

[@godot5643]

Do a video on the evolution of rock'n roll from 50s to 90s.

[@gregslawson5784]

Nice video! Too many only know one or two styles of music but it is all connected in some way!

[@christophervaca7116]

Please do a video where you expand on how the grateful dead is a mix of bluegrass and rock. That sounds fascinating.

[@joelstu2128]

Great video! Have you ever done anything on Moondog? He is an American composer that combined native rhythms with classical.

[@katharinaverena]

Thank you so much! This really helped me prepare for an exam :)

[@Juan6Meses]

I would gladly help with some references if you ever do a video on Metal music history :3

[@subsahara1858]

Michael Jackson changed the game pop

[@christophervaca7116]

Thank you, great upload.

[@thehyperfinestructure6550]

First one to comment! You're doing great work,keep it up!

[@ruslanbilous2160]

Great music overview but if you add some samples of music styles, it will be brilliant.

[@Grokford]

I imagine this would be very helpful if I knew what any of these terms meant. As far as I can tell genre is more a suggestion than anything else in modern music

[@oggieborja4738]

Willie Nelson is idol if my favorite singer rob Thomas of matchbox twenty

[@HellbillyHalloween]

4:46 I think a better example of someone who did boogie woogie in the 1950’s would be Jerry Lee Lewis or Fats Domino

[@estebanmoreno6568]

Great video overall but I cannot let 1 huge mistake pass which was when you mentioned Sublime and used an image of Rome Ramirez, the band’s second singer that joined years later in 2009. Got caught off guard with the mistake considering the vast amount of research that had to be done to make this video. Awesome video tho! Definitely a good summary and overview!

[@paulthompson9432]

I'm teaching a lesson plan. But I'm curious of an actual timeline of history in American music. Blues, Rock n. Roll, Rap etc. Can someone possibly put together a list with dates etc. Please. Any and all feedback welcome. Thank you!!!

[@quincy9908]

I can do an order, but not specific time periods Native American music: Existed first in the confines of the USA, and it is stated in the video that it doesn't have much influence on current popular music. The true confines of the majority of America's popular music comes from Afro-Americans, so they'll be the focus in this regard. But before hand. We have Germanic music (the English, Scottish, Dutch, and German) that came over during colonization. This led to the introduction of Classical music (which isn't a genre, but is a description of classical periods in Western Europe Baroque, Renaissance, etc). Along with that, Irish folk music came from indentured servants & criminals sent to the US. This led to a large settlement of people on the Appalachian mountains ⛰️. Not that far behind Africans was enslaved or in an indentured servitude.

[@BrentAlanBennett]

You stopped at the 90s. I was hoping to find out what's been going on with music for the last 20 years. It seems like it's all hip hop, DJs, and reality TV so I haven't been paying attention

[@user-gy1xp5fg3b]

In my opinion hip hop from 2010 and on is too early to have major influences in all of music. I think hip hop is interesting as a genre, but when told through the perspective of individual artists stories

[@kingblack9387]

Just Say black people made American music

[@AngelRuizTV]

Obviously it’s Beyoncé’s internet and we’re all living in it.

[@curtheciscokid]

A Video on Gershwin!!!!

[@SunriseFireberry]

What about film scores that weren't done by J Williams?

[@andymilsten9096]

TimeAndChance how about Thomas Newman. He wrote the scores for Pixar movies, such as Cars, Finding Nemo&Dory, The Incredibles, Monsters Inc. etc.

[@gregslawson5784]

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[@theobserver8881]

Kurt Cobain in the thumbnail!

[@jas6699]

you need to use more subtitles please!

[@ShiprockChieftainMusicMsHelenW]

Hey - nice video. Just so you know Native American music has been HUGELY influential on popular American music. It's poly-rhythms & vocalizations styles have influenced jazz, country & other forms of American music.

[@yhanmillington6327]

calypso is caribbean not latin

[@1mp0ss1b1e]

Where's the King of Pop and the Beatles!!!

[@armhan]

Interesting! :) Led Zeppelin...mmm not really heavy metal, they were hard rock, first heavy metal band was Black Sabbath, and glam rock/metal was subsequent

[@godot5643]

ARM led Zeppelin's early stuff was metal, Specifically their first album, which was released on January 12 1969 Black Sabbath's first album was released in February 1970.

[@user-eb8js4px9i]

piano tv bot bossa nova is fron soth anerican not fron the onited states sister

[@ThomasSyre65]

I see kurt i click

[@underzog]

Warner Brothers cartoons have minalmist music.

[@MrYatesj1]

You could certainly break this subject down per decade and it would still take months.

[@kingblack9387]

White people created classical music .Native Americans created pow wows music. African-American created spiritual gospel Blues Jazz rock & roll hip-hop R&B Funk Disco ragtag techno country music and many more styles of music.

[@kateharpie]

omg is the baby ok??????

[@jasup2010]

I understand that the video wanted to give a brief over view, but it was filled with inaccuracies and VERY broad generalizations. As an example, Funk music did not come from Psychedelic rock! Thumbs down!

[@quincy9908]

💯 it came from Soul music that emphasized more Jazz chords on bass.

[@lilacwine7998]

Well, what? Where’s Johnny Cash?

[@loriannrichardson7644]

This "Guide" is so whitewashed.

[@demonhunter6476]

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[@KeganTheTowel]

African Americans brought Christian music from where?

[@truthsaviour8804]

Very interesting video. You seem to go out your way to include every race in the creation of American music. That is simply not so. It was the African American who had the creative genius to develop all the popular musical styles in America including country and rock. The banjo is essential to bluegrass. How could you talk about the genre and not mention african american's contribution to the genre. It should be noted that the banjo is of african origin. More detailed focus should have been made on the contribution african americans have made to American music. American music was not created through a collective collaboration.

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

David bowie, led zeppelin and the clash are all british 😂😂😂😂 also black sabbath were metal not led zeppelin 😂😂😂😂

[@djangomaxfield]

new Mandela effect: Tupac and biggie died in the 1950's

[@reilea9977]

I am so bored out of my mind. You talk too much and there wasn't really any meat on the bones as far as seeing and hearing music goes. Maybe it's because I'm 18 and our professor wanted us to look for how music changed over the years and too young to appreciate but I would rather hear more of the music and less talking, it was just too much.

[@asdfasdf-gm5uk]

American history is nothing compared to great european tradition (classical music)

[@marcuslloyd8218]

Disagree influential but think it pales to American music world influence

[@underzog]

Rap is not music. I wonder if it even approaches mediocrity.

[@Kyle_Schaff]

*underzog* “[contemporary genre] is not *real* music.” Quote by every pretentious and shortsighted person of their time who looks at the worst of the current genre and swears it off until only the greats are remembered, and then s/he wonders what happened to when music was good like it was a generation ago: the music of [contemporary genre’s great artists].

[@kingblack9387]

Because you don't understand the history of rap music majority of American music is black music

[@kingblack9387]

@@Kyle_Schaff white people created classical music. Native Americans created pow wows music. African-American created jazz blues Funk hip-hop gospel spiritual Funk techno rock and roll country many more styles of music.

[@izukumidoriya657]

underzog y’all white people are something else