Sister Rosetta Tharpe Analysis

I really enjoyed Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s Documentary. Initially, I was shocked because the opening scene is a black woman in a what people would consider now a conservative dress jamming out with her guitar. That is an image that we do not see a lot of in popular media. When I think of guitarists I think of mostly white males (with the exception of Jimi Hendrix) like Keith Richards and Jeff Beck. I am by no means a rock and roll follower or know of many bands under the genera, so what I am saying could be wrong but just from my experience growing up in America I only really hear of guitarists being white males, so when I saw a black woman jamming it was exciting. As Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s biographer states, “she had a major impact on artists