Blog # 2

Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World

Annette Ott

In this film it shares the impacts that Native American have made and how it changed music. influences it made today from early blues, jazz and rock'n'roll. This film brings a lot of eye-opening artists to light. Musician I never knew that had Native roots. One would wonder why all of these impacts have not been shared in a film like Rumble before.

Marti Gras and the history of the Stump dance is so interesting how the leader calls, then the men answer out a chant the drums, singing, feathers. Indigenous people have been doing this for 150 years. Many people believe that this is where the early blues, jazz started it was definitely the start of where music is today. I think Native Americans influence music more than any group of people.

From Charley Patton, Buffy Saint-Marie, Jimi Hendrix Neville brother are just a few people who was mentioned in the film the list goes on. Many Indigenous people played various instrument from the drums to the guitars. Link Wray was probably the best guitarist in history he was the one of the first persons to take the guitar to a whole new level, he made his guitar Rumble people still talk about him today as one of the best guitarists.

A couple unknown facts that I found interesting was that these musicians used the guitars to thump on because they weren't allowed to use drums, so they used the stings on the guitar and thumped on it at the same time, to change the ways music is played today. Another interesting fact is they had to hide these clubs for their music and dancing.

I would definitely recommend this film to family and friends it was extremely well made and credits Native people for the path of where music is today. It paved the way for artists to being their cultural stories, talents alive and rumbled the world today.