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Pages in category "Music of Illinois" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Rock music groups from Illinois (7 C, 67 P) Pages in category "Musical groups from Illinois" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total.
Burl Ives, hailing from downstate Illinois (and attended Eastern Illinois University), helped popularize folk music, with releases beginning in the 1940s (One of his most enduring hits is "A Holly Jolly Christmas" from 1964). Chicago was a focal point for the folk music boom of the 1960s and early 1970s.
Funk – a popular music genre that combines blues (via rhythm and blues), jazz, and soul music and is known for its de-emphasis towards melodies and harmonies in favor of the bassline. Funk carioca – a Brazilian hip hop-influenced music genre from Rio de Janeiro, taking influences from musical styles such as Miami bass and freestyle.
Urban blues started in Chicago and St. Louis, as music created by part-time musicians playing as street musicians, at rent parties, and other events in the black community. For example, bottleneck guitarist Kokomo Arnold was a steelworker and had a moonshine business that was far more profitable than his music.
Sufjan Stevens’s indie folk concept album “Illinois” (2005) is whimsical, earnest, and sorrowful; it weaves together events and figures from Illinois history (including UFO sightings ...
Band spanning various genres such as soul, R&B, pop, jazz, funk, disco, rock, Latin and African Founded in Chicago [24] The Emotions: 1962: present: Soul/R&B vocal group Founded in Chicago Enuff Z'Nuff: 1984: Rock band Founded in Chicago [25] Fall Out Boy: 2001: present: Rock band Founded in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette [26] Hope in Ghosts ...
Chicago's music scene has been well known for its blues music for many years. "Chicago Blues" uses a variety of instruments in a way which heavily influenced early rock and roll music, including instruments like electrically amplified guitar, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes the saxophone or harmonica, which are generally used in Delta blues, which originated in Mississippi.