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A century of en-counters between folklorists, historians, and critics and blues music and musicians reflects several generations’ attempts to answer the “race question,” resulting in critics seeing blues music as essentially accommodative of or, conversely, funda-mentally resistant to Jim Crow society.
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. Learn more about blues, including notable musicians.
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.”
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.
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.
The book provides a history of the blues genre of music. It traces the origins and development of blues music from its roots in African American work songs through its emergence as a commercial style in the early 20th century.
