African American Music In The 1940s

The most difficult times for the Unites States occurred the 1940’s. The beginning of the rock and roll styles, most of their lyrics express the pain that they suffered physically and emotionally. This was era of the world war II. When the world was full of fear and frustration, unknown what would bring the next day. However, reminding in a positive way on a brighter future of a nation. Those days when it was huge differences between African Americans and white people. While the country was struggling in different aspects with the world, inside of it was experiencing a high racism between cultures, job discrimination, and the development a new music style that will change these two cultures opinions. First of all, during this era African American had to experience many ways of discrimination and segregation. While white were trying to justify their actions, saying that “blacks were separate but equal”.
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The developed these new styles opened the many doors for black artist such as B.B. King, Big Joe Turner, Chuck Berry, Little Richard and more. Then, the revolution began with black rock and roll singers reaching white audience and white performers interesting in African American music. This new music style approached these two cultures, living behind the many racial thoughts and allowing them to learn from each culture better. In conclusion, even when the nation was having a difficult time with many racial problems between African Americans and white, which involved workplace harassment, employment discrimination. However, the develop of the rock and roll not only revolutionized the music industry in different aspects, also was reassign a new culture which enjoyed their music without judging from what skin color they were. This was the biggest contributing about rock and roll in the