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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. Learn more about blues, including notable musicians.
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.
21 wrz 2014 · Theory pedagogy must grow to accommodate the blues, the same way that our culture has. In this treatise, I set out to explain the characteristic chords and scales of the blues, and I argue that they comprise an alternative system of tonality from European common-practice tonality.
The roots of the blues can be traced to three main musical styles: folk, with its strong lyrical tradition; religious songs, which were taught to African slaves to attempt to replace their native music; and professional music, which included that seen at minstrel and medicine shows.
What is blues? Blues music first swept the United States in the early 1910s, remained a driving force in the pop mainstream for some six decades, and continues to be played and heard around the world.
14 sie 2018 · The society in which we live thus has great import when we consider how to teach music. In unpacking this notion further, research in the field of ethnomusicology provides detailed analyses that explore the interaction and unique relationship that exists between music, culture, and society.
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.
