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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.
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.
26 sty 2024 · Definition of Blues. Originating in the Southern U.S. close to the 20th century, blues is a musical style with certain characteristics such as soulful melodies, moving lyrics, and unique harmonic progression. It’s a style that has made its mark worldwide and influenced thousands of artists in other genres and places.
10 gru 2021 · Blues music is not only an art form that sets the stage for several different genres of music, but a strong voice that has told stories of injustice, lost love and forgotten opportunity throughout time.
26 gru 2012 · Shortened over time to “the blues,” the phrase came to mean a state of emotional agitation or depression. Although there are happy, up-tempo blues songs, many blues songs mine a melancholic vein, and express feelings of loss and emotional turmoil. For white Americans, “blue” meant “drunk” as early as the 1800s.
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.
‘The language and poetry of the blues’ explores the lyrical component of the blues. Modern scholars treat the blues primarily as a musical style, but early scholars also studied blues songs as a form of folk poetry, arising from the common language of African Americans.
