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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.
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.
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.
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.
George Russell, Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization (1953) The central argument of this influential work of music theory is that while “traditional music theory” upholds the major scale as the ultimate justification for harmonic movement, the Lydian scale, around which Russell elaborates a complex theoretical apparatus of ...
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.”
The blues songs I analyzed in this chapter show the imaginative range of Spivey and some of her cowriters. From the serious to the funny, these blues songs commented on the poor treatment of the ill, the agency of Black women, and the chastisement of men for their sexual exploits.
