Led Zeppelin’s Music and Its Black Blues (un)credited Influence
Led Zeppelin’s Music and Its Black Blues (un)credited Influence

Summary/Abstract: Led Zeppelin is considered one of the most influential rock bands in the history of music due to their sophisticated sound and seminal compositions. Their music prodigiously impacted the industry, blazing the trail for today’s prominent artists. Throughout the years, their cultural legacy was fathomlessly analysed and assessed by a plethora of music pundits who focused their investigations on the musicians’ educational and artistic background, early musical influences and creative mindset. Despite being notorious for their rock supremacy, many of their works are deeply rooted in African-American blues music. Nevertheless, despite Jimmy Page and Robert Plant’s public enthusiasm for this genre due to their early involvement in the blues music scene, the band arguably premeditated to omit crediting blues artists whose black heritage significantly contributed to Led Zeppelin’s awe-inspiring success. Consequently, they faced several resounding trials for unfairly exploiting many blues musicians’ works in creating their own repertoire which led to serious cases of copyright infringement. During the course of this essay, I will outline the band’s misappropriation of African-American blues culture in regard to their phenomenal rock establishment as a result of a Western white predominance in the music industry at the time.

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