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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.
Classic blues is a genre of music that originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, primarily among African American communities in the southern United States. It is characterized by its use of the blues scale, call-and-response patterns, and often melancholic lyrics about love, loss, and hardship.
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.
22 paź 2024 · Rhythm and blues, term used for several types of postwar African-American popular music, as well as for some white rock music derived from it. Perhaps the most commonly understood meaning of the term is as a description of the sophisticated urban music that had been developing since the 1930s.
14 sie 2012 · Men and women, both black and white, on both sides of the Atlantic, have embraced this deep and satisfying musical genre. One of the earliest white disciples of the Blues was Eric Clapton.
