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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.
African American songs like “Mailman Blues” were, as historian Lawrence Levine suggests, “meant to be shared, . . . meant to evoke experiences common to the group, . . . to provide relief and release” for listeners.
Reasserting the significance of the blues as a form of Black vernacular music grounds the idea of a blues aesthetic in both a specific history and a performance practice. The genre was shaped by racialized socioeconomic conditions that influenced its formal and stylistic components.
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.
The first music to be called blues seems to have been slow, but not necessarily sad—it was a sexy rhythm, popular with African American working-class dancers in New Orleans and other parts of the Deep South.
The last two chapters address violence, one traditionally associated with blues music and blues culture: the knives, razors, “chibs,” ice picks, and guns that have taken the lives of a number of blues musicians.
An Essay in the Sociology of Music. D.J. Hatch, University of Lancaster, and D.R. Watson, University of Manchester. The authors have attempted to produce, in ideal-type form, a description of some. of the rules, constructs and procedures used by "blues enthusiasts" in hearing a piece of music as being "the country-blues".
