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blues music’s loci, performers, and audiences shifted over time, how did the ideal of the masculine, acoustic Delta-based blues become enshrined in both scholarly and commercial reckonings of authentic blues? These and other questions are fundamental to blues studies as we enter the next century of the music.
In music, the V-IV-I turnaround, or blues turnaround is one of several patterns traditionally found in the twelve-bar blues, and commonly found in rock and roll.
In this paper, by highlighting Hawaiian, Spanish and African influences, we discuss the geographical processes associated with the evolution of blues music and focus on the multi-layered forms of global diffusion responsible for what has been referred to as “Delta blues.”
15 lis 2017 · By exploring the multi-layered circuitry of change associated with the evolution and diffusion of Delta blues music, this paper reveals the transnational and transcultural dimensions of the...
What is blues? Blues music first swept the United States in the early 1910s, remained a driving force in the pop mainstream for some six decades, and continues to be played and heard around the world.
The blues is a distinct musical type. It is an instrumentally accompanied song-type, with identifying features in its verse, melodic, and harmonic structures, composition, and accompaniment. Most blues lyrics are set in three-line or quatrain-refrain verses.
6 wrz 2022 · In this article certain aspects of the history of blues music are analysed using a field theoretical approach. The analysis shows that blues music – in particular in the ‘classic blues’ of the 1920s – had a far-reaching impact on various...
