The Blues Continued

Review:

In your own words, define the following:
1) Segregation
2) Jim Crow Laws

3) What types of places were segregated during the Jim Crow era?

Let's watch a video clip of Howlin' Wolf performing "I'll Be Back Someday" (1964). 

4) What is the message Howlin' Wolf gives in his lyrics?

5) Imagine why he might be saying this?

6)   Read the quote below, from the 1963 book Blues People, by Amiri Baraka (formerly known as LeRoi Jones):

"[The Blues] was the history of the Afro-American people as text, as tale, as story, as exposition, narrative... the music was the score, the actually expressed creative orchestration, reflection, of Afro-American life."

7)    Discuss in your groups and answer these questions:

a.    What does Baraka mean in this quote?
b. How does Howlin' Wolf embody this?
c. Put Baraka's ideas into your own words?

8) Write two paragraphs explaining what the Jim Crow era was and how it influenced African American music--the Blues. Due today.