The origins of blues are not unlike the origins of life. For many years it was recorded only by memory, and relayed only live, and in person. The blues were born in the North Mississippi Delta following the Civil War. Influenced by African roots, field hollers(叫喊者), ballads, church ...
Before we can understand and teach blues tonality, we need to define what we are talking about. I will argue that blues tonality consists of a scale, theblues scale,accompanied by microtonalblue notes.Blues harmonycomprises chords whose roots are blues scale notes. In this treatise, I have d...
Define Blues music. Blues music synonyms, Blues music pronunciation, Blues music translation, English dictionary definition of Blues music. pl.n. 1. A state of depression or melancholy. Often used with the. 2. A style of music that evolved from southern
In this extraordinary reconstruction of the origins of the blues, historian Marybeth Hamilton demonstrates that the story as we know it is largely a myth. Following the trail of characters like Howard Odum, who combed Mississippis back roads with a cylinder phonograph to record vagrants, John and...
origins of so much of Western culture, via the true birthplace of us all – Africa. As this awareness was passed down from Randy’s father, through the understanding of Randy, it has also been passed down to us – meaning all of the musicians, or for that matter all persons who have ...
Presents several books on blues music. "Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey"; "Bessie," by Chris Albertson; "Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters," by Robert Gordon. INSET: Blues Discography.Davis
I feel that as long as I can produce and record music that people enjoy, they can call it blues, they can call it rhythm and blues, they can call it soul or whatever. I don’t care. I loved the guitar so much. Always have and still do. To me it’s one of the greatest ...
Another influence of blues music was the religious music of the Afro-American culture. This music came from the slaves who were Christianized, and began to sing Christian hymns. At first, it was often considered to be the secular counterpart of Christian music. In some areas though, blues mus...
1. Literally, to sing blues music or in that style.There was this old man singing the blues at the bar last night—it was a really moving bit of music. 2. By extension, to complain, whine, or express grief, especially as a means of gaining sympathy from others.Many people will sing...
With an eye to the blues roots of the Rolling Stones, I will reveal how the band revisits their origins in the late phase of their career when the band members are in their seventies. Is the “confession” of the blues roots a kind of “summation of their life’s work and a radical...