Caravan - Every Handful of Rice

When the genre gave a voice to their common experiences in a period where the majority of society was indoctrinated to both deny and eliminate their self expression... This was one of the major themes of the blues, the voice of the people, in addition to love, poverty, and betrayal, amongst many others. These themes were one of the elements that would later become essential in many of the multitude of genres that blues music spawned.

The rising popularity of blues throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries spawned two subgenres which we know today as ragtime and jazz.

The two genres formed their own identities and developed in parallel in the 1910s, and eventually led to more subgenres, jump blues, which was then also identified as rhythm and blues, bebop, and electric blues.

The emergence of electric blues was the final push needed to claim the mainstream spotlight for the genre, spreading blues over radio waves around the world.

While bebop grew to become the predominant form of modern jazz, it still had a relatively small audience in the African American community. It was in this community that experimentation led to the fusion of the genres of gospel and rhythm and blues, forming the genre named soul, which in its early forms could be interpreted as an entirely secular form of gospel.

It was during the late 1960s and ‘70s at the height of the Civil Rights era when soul artists began to incorporate themes of protest and political awareness into their music. These themes, along with their parent blues’ motifs, all eventually made their way into later generations of hip hop and rap.

Source: From Blues To Hip Hop: The Pursuit Of Freedom Through Music by Eddy Lim

Caravan - Every Handful of Rice

• Released in: 1978
• Genre: Rock, Folk
• Duration: 3:33

"Caravan, is a Thai folk rock band that formed out of the 1973 democracy movement. It launched the Phleng pheua chiwit, songs for life, genre that has since been popularized by Carabao."

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