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‘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.
Blues in Poetry. Another recognizable song structure in popular music is the African American blues stanza. The intention of the lyrics is to express an emotion. The blues rhythm originated in African American field hollers and work songs, and some trace it to centuries-old songs by griots of West Africa.
The Blues Poems of Langston Hughes. by David Chinitz. While the adaptation of oral culture to literary ends is never uncomplicated, the accommodation of blues to poetry presents particular difficulties. "Blues," writes folk musicologist Paul Oliver, "is for singing.
16 mar 2022 · I chose these works for how they built upon classic blues (blues that follows the standard AAB lyrical structure and common themes of love, longing, suffering, and travel) by addressing an ecological concern, as in “Backwater Blues,” or innovating the classical structure, as in “Too Blue,” and “Duplex.”.
In 1930, funded by Mrs Mason, Langston Hughes went to Cuba and met many writers and artists there. His blues poems influenced one poet, Nicolás Guillén, to write ‘Motivos de Son’ (1930), hailed as the first ‘Negro’ poems in Cuba. Here are two poems from that period.
The blues poem is a form that originates in African American oral and musical traditions. A blues poem typically follows a form wherein the first line presents a statement, the second offers a variation on that statement, and the third introduces an ironic alternative.
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.
