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Blues is a music genre [3] and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. [2] Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.
9 paź 2024 · Blues, secular folk music created by African Americans in the early 20th century, originally in the South. The simple but expressive forms of the blues became by the 1960s one of the most important influences on the development of popular music.
26 sty 2024 · So, what is the blues? With its origins rooted deep in the Southern U.S., blues is a classic musical genre that has come to transcend both time and borders and impact people on a global level. The hardship, sadness, and triumph that it represents are universal to the human experience.
3 wrz 2021 · American blues is a musical genre with enduring cultural importance that originated in the mid-nineteenth century.
The main features of blues include: specific chord progressions, a walking bass, call and response, dissonant harmonies, syncopation, melisma and flattened ‘blue’ notes. Blues is known for being microtonal, using pitches between the semitones defined by a piano keyboard.
Blues is a music genre that originated in the African American communities of the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century, characterized by its expressive melodies, improvisation, and use of specific chord progressions.
14 sie 2012 · Men and women, both black and white, on both sides of the Atlantic, have embraced this deep and satisfying musical genre. One of the earliest white disciples of the Blues was Eric Clapton.
