Another important element of blues comes from work songs, which were sung by the slaves to help coordinate their labor in the fields and motivate them to continue working under harsh conditions. Works songs include call-and-response patterns, which are commonly found today in blues music. Spiritu...
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Broadway songs by their nature – being sung from a stage – need a bit of bombast (both in vocals and instrumentation) behind them. Even the quiet songs are meant to thump you around the head. I have nothing against that but Connie is a pop singer. She can do bombast but her sensibi...
Señora Grever is all but forgotten today, though her songs are still sung around the world by everyone from Placido Domingo to Gloria Estefan to Willie Nelson. Her first composition - a Christmas carol - was written
Charlie Parker and Miles Davis are famous jazz artists. Blues is a style of music famous for being sad. The lyrics often share stories from the tough lives of the people who write blues songs. Folk Folk music is the traditional music of a particular group of people. In record stores, it...
Blues with added Pop and Hip Hop music elements. So in this style of music, the beat and instrumental are very similar to Hip Hop songs. In contrast, the vocals are very melodic, like rhythm and blues. This makes it a fusion of Hip Hop and R&B. Many artists nowadays have started ...
A style of popular dance music of Caribbean origin that incorporates dancehall, hip-hop, and various Caribbean musical elements, featuring lyrics that are rapped or sung in Spanish. Reggae Popular music of Jamaican origin having elements of Calypso and rhythm and blues, usually with an accent plac...
and she went on to star in a number of films, including “Lady Sings the Blues,” which garnered her an Oscar nomination; “Mahogany”; and “The Wiz.” Ross was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most successful female artist of all time, and the book produced ...
I have been a bit mean about the song Delaware but it is the obvious contender for a journey round the 50 states. Are there many songs out there that reference this small state? If there are I can’t find them. After re-watching my DVD boxset of Live Aid not that long ago, I di...
show’s stellar cast play Adjmi’s rigorously constructed, deceptively casual prose with as much exactness and audacity as the actors, all playing their instruments live, pour into Butler’s songs: Smart, well-crafted tunes that blend the folk and blues and prog vibes of the ’70s with the ...