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Salim Nourallah - Permanant Holiday

With similar roots to blues, and blues as one of its roots, jazz also took from another American art form, ragtime, to create its unique syncopated sound. Its early detractors were many, from Henry Ford to Thomas Edison, but racism was often the reason for cries of it's immoral. Yet the insistent, danceable, heartfelt sounds quickly spread American culture to the far corners of the globe.

Its ever mutating style turned itself into swing music, soul and cool jazz. Jazz's knock on effect was further seen in rock and roll's development in the United States in the 1950s. Artists from Elvis Presley to Chuck Berry created their rock and roll using the musical influences of boogie woogie and blues, along with jazz. Rock's popularity quickly spread around the world.

Soul music, which grew up alongside rock and roll, also developed out of African American gospel, and rhythm and blues traditions... The end of the century saw the birth of hip hop music and culture. In the mid 1970s in the Bronx, New York DJs began isolating percussion rhythms from songs and talking over and between the songs. Rap music, with its semi autobiographical lyrics and deep rhythms were just one more evolution in the blues tradition that had started at the beginning of the century, and one further, enormous transformation in the world of music created and nurtured in the African American community.
Source: 20th Century Music by Oregon Public Broadcasting


Salim Nourallah - Permanant Holiday
  • Released in: August 7, 2015
  • Genre: Rock, Pop
  • Released on: Skeleton Closet album

"Salim Nourallah is a singer/songwriter whose unique style is known for its layered vocals, melodies, and nontrivial arrangements. He has garnered 2006 Dallas Observer Music Awards in three categories, Best Album, Best Song, and Best Producer."

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