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History of the Blues
Ah, the Blues. We say that the Blues when we feel down. But the "Blues" is a genre of music that is a hard to describe but is most characteristic is defined as something with a specific chord progressions - one that the twelve-bar and the Blue Note covers, "which is a flat or curved in relation to the pitch of the large scale.
Nobody knows for sure how the Blues got its name or how it originated, but many theorize that it began with unaccompanied vocal music of poor black workers between 1870 and 1900. Prior to this, a lot of Blues features are said to return to the music of Africa be detected, particularly in the way it uses a wavy, nasal intonation.
The progression of the Blues early this time than rolling in the early spirituals or religious songs at camp meetings. Like blues, spirituals were driven songs transferred to the listeners the same feeling of rootlessness and misery as the Blues. Spirituals were less specifically related to the performer and previously held on the general loneliness of mankind. Despite these differences, the two forms are similar enough that they could not easily separated - many spirituals would probably have said Blues had the word is commonly used at the moment.
Country music is not country in its time as it was also regarded as the 'Blues'. Both types of music during the nineteenth century were labeled "race music" or "hillbilly music".
As the recording industry grew, the country blues artists like Bo Carter, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Lonnie Johnson, Tampa Red and Blind Blake became increasingly popular. The first blues recordings from the 1920s are now classified as a traditional, rural country blues. Country blues performers often improvised, either without accompaniment or with only a banjo or guitar. Regional styles of country blues big differences in the early 20th century. The (Mississippi) Delta blues was a rootsy sparse style considered the blues with passionate vocals accompanied by guitar slide. Robert Johnson was an artist who combined elements of urban and rural blues.
Boogie Woogie was another important style of blues in the1930s and early 1940s. Although the style is often associated with solo piano, boogie-woogie was also used to accompany singers and as a solo part, in bands and small combos.
In the 1950s, the Blues had a huge influence on mainstream American popular music. Music of Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry were catching people's attention. John Lee Hooker Blues made more personal with his raw voice and an electric guitar, his music was characterized as a new Guitar Boogie. His song Boogie Chillen "reached number one on the R & B charts in 1949.
In the northern cities like Chicago and Detroit during the late forties and early fifties, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Howlin 'Wolf, Elmore James and include what was actually played Mississippi Delta Blues, backed by bass, drums, sometimes piano and harmonica. At about the same time, T-Bone Walker in Houston and BB King in Memphis were pioneering a style of guitar playing that combined jazz technique with the blues tonality and repertoire.
White audience "was more interested in the blues during the 1960s with the Chicago-based Paul Butterfield Blues Band and the British Blues movement. Before long, blues and rock and began fusing America saw Blues Rock artists like Jimi Hendrix.
During the 1980s, the Blues also put in both traditional and new forms. Today there are more than 160 blues societies throughout the United States, Canada and Europe, constantly keep the eternal flame alive with their Blues distributing newsletters to their members, of whom more than 100,000 at the height of all the latest information to keep on blues artists and concerts.
While the Blues may have had the beginning of a culture, it is now valued and enjoyed by many cultures worldwide.
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