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1 cze 2024 · Focusing on a cluster of blues songs that reference life insurance reveals the consciousness of a long history of racialized exploitation and discrimination, including the everyday experiences associated with it.
The Bessie Smith–Louis Armstrong duet of “St. Louis Blues” is a classic example of this sort of musical conversation: Smith begins by singing, : “ I hate to see the evening sun go down .” Armstrong echoes her final note on his cornet and adds a relaxed melodic response.
30 sty 2024 · Blues, a genre that speaks volumes of African-American history, is deeply rooted in the experiences of slavery. It is a reflection of hardship and the enduring spirit of a people. This music bieds solace, strength, and sometimes, a powerful form of resistance against oppression.
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.
This paper explores the notions of ladder, level and chromatic cycle as an insightful set of theoretical tools in analysing the music of Robert Johnson. Key sources in developing this analytical approach are the scholarship of Gerhard Kubik and the spatially oriented analytical methods of neo-Riemannian theory.
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?
The blues scale can be rotated to begin on its second note, creating a major blues scale: do–re–ri–mi–sol–la (^1−^2−↑ ^2−^3−^5−^6) (1 ^ − 2 ^ − ↑ 2 ^ − 3 ^ − 5 ^ − 6 ^). This chapter discusses some of the trends in blues melodies that shaped the blues as we know it today.
