bootsykowan's Blog

Just by the names what's the difference?  Isn't this all Rap?  I think of Rap as anti & counter everything.  The trombone song in THE MUSIC MAN is the elegant RAP for me.  Then again I don't have a fine musicians ear.  I'm trying to understand the difference between soul, gospel, blues, country, rockabilly, hillbilly, all the subdivisions of rock, swing, jazz.  Somehow, I've sort of nailed it down to boogie woogie as a standard to compare a lot of it  with. 

Is it a matter of notation or a matter of lyrics?  Is there such a thing as Rap notation? 

It seems to me that original blues was all about the depressed personality of being victimized.  I just started listening to cd's on the original fieldhand,laborer's blues.  I believe the white slave owners demanded that their free labor had to sing so they could monitor them?  Probably also the beginning of Gospel since the white slave owners were about 95% God-fearing folks who loved poor people.

Wasn't it Bennie Goodman that updated the military strut to boogie-woogie?