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1 cze 2024 · The songs about life insurance evoke discrimination and segregation in the financial sector through the representation of insurance agents regularly knocking at the door to collect payment.
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.
The blues scale can be rotated to begin on its second note, creating a major blues scale: do–re–ri–mi–sol–la (^1−^2−↑ ^2−^3−^5−^6) (1 ^ − 2 ^ − ↑ 2 ^ − 3 ^ − 5 ^ − 6 ^). This chapter discusses some of the trends in blues melodies that shaped the blues as we know it today.
28 maj 2019 · Today, the blues scale is familiar to most people who have studied music formally. Although there has been since 1967 a broad consensus as to what that scale is, for the first half of the twentieth century there was actually a good deal of disagreement on that point.
The best one can hope to do in a short introduction is to provide a selective overview of how blues and our understanding of blues have evolved, and to provide some guideposts for further exploration— while always remembering that there are other, equally valid ways to cover the same territory.
Since the 1960s, both the blues and the jazz traditions have been mined for rock fusions, and artists such as Carlos Santana and, more recently, various groups on the “jam band” scene have brought blues, jazz, and rock together in ways that at their best illuminate all three styles.
