Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Found inside – Page 45In fact, the blues form and many of its distinctive elements crop up ... Olly Wilson has argued for defining “black music” based on “a shared core of ... In the early 1970s, the Texas rock-blues style emerged, which used guitars in both solo and rhythm roles. Spiritual singing developed because African-American communities could gather for mass or worship gatherings, which were called camp meetings. Morales attributed this claim to. Your Name . ) ; Godrich, John (1970). Blues as a genre is also characterized by its lyrics, bass lines, and instrumentation. And despite the genre's roots in gospel and the blues, the 20 Americana nominees to date have included only one black artist: the singer Mavis Staples, who won the award in 2011 for You Are Not . (1991). [46], According to Lawrence Levine, "there was a direct relationship between the national ideological emphasis upon the individual, the popularity of Booker T. Washington's teachings, and the rise of the blues." Of all these bands, Phish towered above the rest, due to their musical eclecticism, uncanny technical abilities, and massive popularity. Blues songs deal with a variety of topics and emotions, though it is often mistakenly thought that they deal almost exclusively with sorrow and protest. Edward P. Comentale has noted how the blues was often used as a medium for art or self-expression, stating: "As heard from Delta shacks to Chicago tenements to Harlem cabarets, the blues proved—despite its pained origins—a remarkably flexible medium and a new arena for the shaping of identity and community."[123]. Blue notes (or "worried notes"), usually thirds, fifths or sevenths flattened in pitch are also an essential part of the sound. The music of the civil rights movement[108] and Free Speech Movement in the U.S. prompted a resurgence of interest in American roots music and early African American music. These . Most artists of the Chicago blues style recorded for the Chicago-based Chess Records and Checker Records labels. Chicago Blues Record Labels . Blues tonality nearly always goes hand-in-hand with syncopation and swing. Blues guitarist and vocalist Keb' Mo' performed his blues rendition of "America, the Beautiful" in 2006 to close out the final season of the television series The West Wing. Its influence on popular singing has been so widespread that, at least among males, singing and emoting have become almost identical—it is a matter of projection rather than hitting the notes."[121]. A lot of the 1970s-era "outlaw" country music by Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings also borrowed from the blues. The blues scale (or Pentablues) is the pentatonic scale plus one note.This note became known as the "blue note", and is the flat fifth in the case of the minor pentatonic, or the flat third in the case of the major pentatonic. Popular R&B vocalists at the end of the 20th century included Michael Jackson, Prince, R. Kelly, Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Whitney Houston, and Mariah Carey. Garofalo, pp. During the '60s, the blues were rediscovered by a new generation of young listeners. It uses saxophone or other brass instruments and the guitar in the rhythm section to create a jazzy, up-tempo sound with declamatory vocals. Bebop classics, such as Charlie Parker's "Now's the Time", used the blues form with the pentatonic scale and blue notes. The lyrical content became slightly simpler in postwar blues, which tended to focus on relationship woes or sexual worries. Although the audience was largely jolted by the performance, the performance influenced local musicians such as Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies to emulate this louder style, inspiring the British invasion of the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds.[98]. During the blues revival of the 1960s and '70s, acoustic blues artist Taj Mahal and legendary Texas bluesman Lightnin' Hopkins wrote and performed music that figured prominently in the popularly and critically acclaimed film Sounder (1972). She was a free-born black woman from Pennsylvania who was working as a schoolteacher in South Carolina, instructing both slaves and freedmen, and wrote that she "came home with the blues" because she felt lonesome and pitied herself. Musicians were therefore segregated into two categories: gospel singers and blues singers, guitar preachers and songsters. Zydeco musicians used electric solo guitar and cajun arrangements of blues standards. Chicago blues also influenced Louisiana's zydeco music,[96] with Clifton Chenier[97] using blues accents. In England, electric blues took root there during a much acclaimed Muddy Waters tour in 1958. The Blues in African-American Culture The blues are, or have been, many things within the space of African-American culture, and those things inevitably show up in opposed pairs. Many elements, such as the call-and-response format and the use of blue notes, can be traced back to the music of Africa. Blues has been a major influence on later American and . Found inside – Page 245Genre and Twentieth-Century Popular Music David Brackett ... social identity in the definition of the term, as “rhythm and blues refers to almost any music ... King, also straddled the blues and R&B genres. Handy was the first to popularize blues-influenced music among non-black Americans. Found inside – Page 115The Evolution of a Genre Paul Oliver, Tony Russell, Robert M. W. Dixon, John Godrich, ... I favoured the Shorter Oxford Dictionary ( 1972 ) definition of ... [13] This melancholy has led to the suggestion of an Igbo origin for blues because of the reputation the Igbo had throughout plantations in the Americas for their melancholic music and outlook on life when they were enslaved.[14][15]. For other uses, see. King. [20] However, the Christian influence was far more obvious. [39] A record of blues music as it existed before 1920 can also be found in the recordings of artists such as Lead Belly[40] and Henry Thomas. I said, backwater rising, Southern peoples can't make no time Found inside – Page 104About the only genres which it doesn't partake of are the Western and the war movie; ... The definition of myth, as a dream shared by a race (or, at least, ... Mamie Smith, more a vaudeville performer than a blues artist, was the first African American to record a blues song in 1920; her second record, "Crazy Blues", sold 75,000 copies in its first month. But the origins of the blues were some decades earlier, probably around 1890. [5] Though the use of the phrase in African-American music may be older, it has been attested to in print since 1912, when Hart Wand's "Dallas Blues" became the first copyrighted blues composition. Other harp players such as Big Walter Horton were also influential. The genres of progressive rock music Progressive rock (shortened to prog, or prog rock when differentiating from other. He composed and wrote many standard blues songs of the period, such as "Hoochie Coochie Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You" (both penned for Muddy Waters) and, "Wang Dang Doodle" and "Back Door Man" for Howlin' Wolf. Morales, p. 276. [61] The style also was closely related to ragtime, which developed at about the same time, though the blues better preserved "the original melodic patterns of African music". [18] Tampa Red's classic "Tight Like That" (1928) is a sly wordplay with the double meaning of being "tight" with someone coupled with a more salacious physical familiarity. In the early 1950s, it was frequently applied to blues records. King introduced a sophisticated style of guitar soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that influenced many later electric blues guitarists. Jessica F. Black Horror fiction has sub-genres such as historical, psychological, and supernatural. In the 1960s, several British rock bands such as the Rolling Stones, the Who and the Animals were referred to and promoted as being R&B bands; posters for the Who’s residency at the Marquee Club in 1964 contained the slogan, “Maximum R&B”. Found inside – Page 134It sold 75,000 copies in its first month.7 Blues music had been heard much ... to the definition of the genre whose source, beyond its recorded existence, ... Blues Genres - the commonly used terms for blues music categories More information about each genre can be found by clicking the genre name, this will take you to the associated Wikipedia entry if present or to an other source if not. Chroniclers began to report about blues music at the dawn of the 20th century. [62], The musical forms and styles that are now considered the blues as well as modern country music arose in the same regions of the southern United States during the 19th century. A state of depression or melancholy. Jump blues tunes by Louis Jordan and Big Joe Turner, based in Kansas City, Missouri, influenced the development of later styles such as rock and roll and rhythm and blues. [57] The banjo seems to be directly imported from West African music. Memphis guitarist B.B. [92] The saxophonist J. T. Brown played in bands led by Elmore James and by J. Records. The genres listed mainly refer to the US, including the folk music of Louisiana (Zydeco, Cajun and Creole), plus the blues of Africa, Canada and Britain. Early blues frequently took the form of a loose narrative. Chuck Anderson recognizes blues to be a blues in this JGT lesson - his Jazz Guitar Improvisation Lesson Series continues. [70] The first blues recordings from the 1920s are categorized as a traditional, rural country blues and a more polished city or urban blues. Soul blues is a style of blues music developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s that combines elements of soul music and urban contemporary music. The blue note in blues scale. Singers and musicians who grew up listening to the traditional electric blues of artists such as Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Jimmy Reed and Elmore James; soul singers such as Sam Cooke, Ray Charles . The lyrics generally end on the last beat of the tenth bar or the first beat of the 11th bar, and the final two bars are given to the instrumentalist as a break; the harmony of this two-bar break, the turnaround, can be extremely complex, sometimes consisting of single notes that defy analysis in terms of chords. Urban Blues focuses lyrically on life in the city. The harmonica, or blues harp, links back to the earliest days of the genre as a portable and easy-to-play instrument. Levine stated that "psychologically, socially, and economically, African-Americans were being acculturated in a way that would have been impossible during slavery, and it is hardly surprising that their secular music reflected this as much as their religious music did. Smith would "sing a song in an unusual key, and her artistry in bending and stretching notes with her beautiful, powerful contralto to accommodate her own interpretation was unsurpassed". Boogie-Woogie style was characterized by a regular bass figure, an ostinato or riff and shifts of level in the left hand, elaborating each chord and trills and decorations in the right hand. On a guitar this may be played as a simple steady bass or it may add to that stepwise quarter note motion from the fifth to the sixth of the chord and back. Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. Without the blues there'd be no rock'n'roll, but these influential blues songs were especially pivotal. B. 12 bar blues songs are comprised of 3 chords : the I, the IV, and the V and are played using a pattern that ultimately ends up being 12 bars long. [44] The first appearance of the blues is usually dated after the Emancipation Act of 1863,[35] between 1860s and 1890s,[2] a period that coincides with post-emancipation and later, the establishment of juke joints as places where blacks went to listen to music, dance, or gamble after a hard day's work. Music Genre. Both hetero and homosexual topics were discussed in blues, which made it a very unique genre musically and symbolically. Found inside – Page 62The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church Michael W. Harris ... Its strategy is to define the term “vers libre" entirely in negatives—"(1) ... At its core, the blues has remained the same since its inception. Blues subgenres include country blues, such as Delta blues and Piedmont blues, as well as urban blues styles such as Chicago blues and West Coast blues. 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If rock and roll is the trunk of the tree and genres like blues, jazz, gospel and country the roots, hip hop rightfully takes its place in the branches alongside genres like heavy metal, punk, new . . The simple but expressive forms of the blues became by the 1960s one of the most important influences on the development of popular music —namely, jazz, rhythm and blues, rock, and country music —throughout the United States. Call-and-response shouts were an early form of blues-like music; they were a "functional expression ... style without accompaniment or harmony and unbounded by the formality of any particular musical structure". In the 1920s, the blues became a major element of African American and American popular music, reaching white audiences via Handy's arrangements and the classic female blues performers. Blues A vocal and instrumental form of music based on a pentatonic scale and a characteristic twelve-bar chord progression, blues evolved from African American spirituals, shouts, work songs and chants that found its earliest stylistic roots in West Africa. The bassist and prolific songwriter and composer Willie Dixon played a major role on the Chicago blues scene. [5] By the 1800s in the United States, the term blues was associated with drinking alcohol, a meaning which survives in the phrase blue law, which prohibits the sale of alcohol on Sunday. Other blues artists, such as John Lee Hooker had influences not directly related to the Chicago style. Much of the time, some or all of these chords are played in the harmonic seventh (7th) form. In the early 20th century large numbers of people started to move to industrial cities. Found inside – Page 11Blues form: the incidences of the so-called “twelve-bar blues” form were counted ... and can perhaps be most easily defined by saying that, in music with a ... Dorsey helped to popularize Gospel music. A number of the features of the blues were adopted by jazz music of the variety stage (estrada); in jazz music, the blues developed as instrumental dance pieces. The audience for both blues and jazz split, and the border between blues and jazz became more defined. In the early 20th century, the blues was considered disreputable, especially as white audiences began listening to the blues during the 1920s. Handy wrote that he adopted this convention to avoid the monotony of lines repeated three times. Beat your last streak, or best your overall time. Gordon's successor at the library was John Lomax. 1. [48] A form of this pre-blues was heard in slave ring shouts and field hollers, expanded into "simple solo songs laden with emotional content". [76] Classic female urban and vaudeville blues singers were popular in the 1920s, among them "the big three"—Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Lucille Bogan. Garofalo cited other authors who also mention the "Ethiopian airs" and "Negro spirituals". [73], The lively Memphis blues style, which developed in the 1920s and 1930s near Memphis, Tennessee, was influenced by jug bands such as the Memphis Jug Band or the Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers. However, beginning in the 1990s, digital multitrack recording and other technological advances and new marketing strategies including video clip production increased costs, challenging the spontaneity and improvisation that are an important component of blues music. Found inside – Page 76Genre and Identity in Avant-Garde Popular Music, 1977-82 Mimi Haddon. questions about the way the meaning of a musical technique changes when it moves from ... (Parentheticals in Garofalo.). Although she admitted being unable to describe the manner of singing she heard, Forten wrote that the songs "can't be sung without a full heart and a troubled spirit", conditions that have inspired countless blues songs.[10]. Blues performers such as John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters continued to perform to enthusiastic audiences, inspiring new artists steeped in traditional blues, such as New York–born Taj Mahal. Handy was a formally trained musician, composer and arranger who helped to popularize the blues by transcribing and orchestrating blues in an almost symphonic style, with bands and singers. Garofalo cited Barlow in "Handy's sudden success demonstrated [the] commercial potential of [the blues], which in turn made the genre attractive to the Tin Pan Alley hacks, who wasted little time in turning out a deluge of imitations." However, the blues wave that brought artists such as Muddy Waters to the foreground had stopped. The basic 12-bar lyric framework of a blues composition is reflected by a standard harmonic progression of 12 bars in a 4/4 time signature. Rock and Roll utilizes call and response tropes, polyrhythm, synchopation, is played in a purcussive manner and generally follows the 12 or 8 bar Blues form and the 1, 4, 5 . During the 1980s blues also continued in both traditional and new forms. Handy.[67]. While popular musicians like Bo Diddley[89] and Chuck Berry,[95] both recording for Chess, were influenced by the Chicago blues, their enthusiastic playing styles departed from the melancholy aspects of blues. [47] However, there are some characteristics that were present long before the creation of the modern blues. Musically, spirituals were a descendant of New England choral traditions, and in particular of Isaac Watts's hymns, mixed with African rhythms and call-and-response forms. The Billboard Blues Album chart provides an overview of current blues hits. [63][64], Though musicologists can now attempt to define the blues narrowly in terms of certain chord structures and lyric forms thought to have originated in West Africa, audiences originally heard the music in a far more general way: it was simply the music of the rural south, notably the Mississippi Delta. The term genre is used quite often to denote literary sub-classifications or specific types of literature such as comedy, tragedy, epic poetry, thriller, science fiction, romance, etc. Blues shuffles or walking bass reinforce the trance-like rhythm and form a repetitive effect known as the groove. [124][125], The blues' 12-bar structure and the blues scale was a major influence on rock and roll music. The blues women thus effected changes in other types of popular singing that had spin-offs in jazz, Broadway musicals, torch songs of the 1930s and 1940s, gospel, rhythm and blues, and eventually rock and roll. The other music worlds are not studied and analyzed in musicmap, as their music genres do not apply as popular music. Instrumental music is important in the blues. [99] The "West Side sound" had strong rhythmic support from a rhythm guitar, bass guitar and drums and as perfected by Guy, Freddie King, Magic Slim and Luther Allison was dominated by amplified electric lead guitar. This marketing strategy reinforced trends in urban blues music such as the use of electric instruments and amplification and the generalization of the blues beat, the blues shuffle, which became ubiquitous in rhythm and blues (R&B). Found inside – Page 144While the Classic Blues style of singing and expressing the blues already ... made to define CCM by its lyrical content (CCM is music that presents a clear ... It is closely related to jazz . on the path to systematic vocabulary improvement. Found insideBesides the foregoing general definition of popular music, scholarship in the ... The consideration of such artistic forms as highlife, reggae, rock, blues, ... The blues gave options to women like Smith and Memphis Minnie, who might . Throughout the 1910s and 1920s, more and more female . Usually, jazz had harmonic structures stemming from brass bands, whereas blues had blues forms such as the 12-bar blues. Found inside – Page 31The first documented use of the term in reference to music appeared in an ... yet encountered the terms “blues” and “Jazz,” Seagrove included a definition, ... Though not directly influenced by boogie woogie, his "groovy" style is sometimes called "guitar boogie". More information about each genre can be found by clicking the genre name, this will take you to the associated Wikipedia entry if present or to an other source if not. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. Boogie-woogie was another important style of 1930s and early 1940s urban blues. Found insideBlues,. World. Scales,. Rock,. and. So. On. Different styles of music can be ... although other modern instruments have also contributed to its definition. Before World War II, Tampa Red was sometimes referred to as "the Guitar Wizard". World War II marked the transition from acoustic to electric blues and the progressive opening of blues music to a wider audience, especially white listeners. Charles Peabody mentioned the appearance of blues music at Clarksdale, Mississippi, and Gate Thomas reported similar songs in southern Texas around 1901–1902. Start a Jam and invite your friends and classmates to join. A number of older country-blues artists, like Son House and Furry Lewis, experienced a dramatic upsurge in popularity, as their older records became popular and they became in-demand performers. The musical form and genre features of the blues have been utilized by many 20th-century composers—for example, G. Gershwin in the USA, M. Ravel in France, and E. Csenec in Austria. [54], No specific African musical form can be identified as the single direct ancestor of the blues. The origins of spirituals go back much further than the blues, usually dating back to the middle of the 18th century, when the slaves were Christianized and began to sing and play Christian hymns, in particular those of Isaac Watts, which were very popular. [122] Gospel music developed in the 1930s, with the Golden Gate Quartet. In the 1950s, soul music by Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and James Brown used gospel and blues music elements. [26] Other chord progressions, such as 8-bar forms, are still considered blues; examples include "How Long Blues", "Trouble in Mind", and Big Bill Broonzy's "Key to the Highway". Hosted by President Obama and Mrs. Obama, the show featured performances by B.B. Major artists of the Texas style are Johnny Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Fabulous Thunderbirds (led by harmonica player and singer-songwriter Kim Wilson), and ZZ Top. The blues evolved from informal performances in bars to entertainment in theaters. A number of older country-blues artists, like Son House and Furry Lewis, experienced a dramatic upsurge in popularity, as their older records became popular and they became in-demand performers. ", "The Evolution of the 12-Bar Blues Progression", "A Jazz Improvisation Almanac, Outside Shore Music Online School". Like. Buchana, Ms. Jody, Shirley Brown, and dozens of others. Blues performances were organized by the Theater Owners Bookers Association in nightclubs such as the Cotton Club and juke joints such as the bars along Beale Street in Memphis. [100][101] Expressive guitar solos were a key feature of this music. Slaves used "field hollers" to communicate in the fields and work songs to keep time when performing a task. An interesting example from outside the blues genre is "Harder Better Faster Stronger" by Daft Punk (2001). By the 1970s, the term “rhythm and blues” changed again and was used as a blanket term for soul and funk. The genre's stylistic legacy--it pointed the way to classic rock 'n' roll--far outweighed its commercial impact. Found inside – Page 2794.3 Correlation between two genres After having analysed associations from ... artists with a high affinity to Blues tend to have a low affinity to Rap. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore. Eric Clapton, known for his performances with the Blues Breakers and Cream, made a comeback in the 1990s with his album Unplugged, in which he played some standard blues numbers on acoustic guitar. However, when rural black music began to be recorded in the 1920s, both categories of musicians used similar techniques: call-and-response patterns, blue notes, and slide guitars. His album Alabama Blues contained a song with the following lyric: I never will go back to Alabama, that is not the place for me (2x) In the 1700s, millions of people were taken from Africa to work as slaves in the West Indies and America. But blues is also a raucous dance music that celebrates pleasure and success. Blues Analysis There are many types of Blues but the most common form is 12 bar blues. Found inside – Page 736For American folklorists, their genres, the art, and the performances are ... Although almost every black artist has defined blues music as “a feeling” (see ... Blues forms are used in the theme to the televised Batman, teen idol Fabian Forte's hit, "Turn Me Loose", country music star Jimmie Rodgers' music, and guitarist/vocalist Tracy Chapman's hit "Give Me One Reason". Found inside – Page 16The definition I found ('Contemporary music that draws from American ... from the lyric-driven, simpler folk-country-blues 'roots,' and not any others. Some labels are famous for rediscovering and remastering blues rarities, including Arhoolie Records, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (heir of Folkways Records), and Yazoo Records (Shanachie Records).[119]. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The style of British blues developed in the UK, when bands such as the Animals, Fleetwood Mac, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, the supergroup Cream and the Irish musician Rory Gallagher performed classic blues songs from the Delta or Chicago blues traditions. Often used with the. Found inside – Page 186The Social Construction of Female Popular Music Stars Kristin J. Lieb ... 171n15 blues genre: 96–7 Blumer, Herbert: and symbolic interactionism and ... Many early rock and roll songs are based on blues: "That's All Right Mama", "Johnny B. 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