This is where is all started.. The Blues: Musical Elements This music has a direct connection to the African-American traumas of slavery and post slavery.

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This is where is all started.

The Blues: Musical Elements This music has a direct connection to the African-American traumas of slavery and post slavery. The purpose of the blues as music is to provide solace, comfort, and entertainment, if not joy.

The Blues: Musical Elements The blue note is played or sung at a slightly lower than normal scale and slides up and down along a tiny continuum of pitches. Blues lyrics range from elaborately prepared narratives to discontinuous improvised couplets drawn from a common pool of formulaic lines.

The Blues: Musical Elements Blues poetic form: aab - Line b rhymes with line a and resolves with a humorous or ironic twist. The 12-bar-blues progression consists of 3 4-bar phrases: I I I I / IV IV I I / V V I I and can be drawn out. This contrast with the symmetrically phrased 8-, 16-, or 32-bar forms of much popular music.

The Blues: Styles Down home (Country Blues) Boogie Woogie and Barrelhouse (Piano) Classic Blues Chicago (Urban) Blues Modern Blues

We need to who sang the blues. Bessie Smith (The Empress of the Blues) Big Joe Turner Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy Robert Johnson (Father of the Blues) Joe “Pine Top” Perkins Big Mama Thornton

More blues legends! Big Bill Broonzy Ruth Brown Ray Charles The Chess brothers (Leonard and Marshall) Willie Dixon Muddy Waters W.C.Handy Howlin’ Wolf Son House Leadbelly Little Richard

And more! B.B.King Taj Mahal Bonnie Raitt Gertrude “Ma” Rainey The Rolling Stones Koko Taylor Sister Rosetta Tharpe Big Mama Thornton (the first Hound Dog) And more. html

A brilliant documentary A documentary about Robert Johnson: Can You Hear the Wind Howl?

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Question: So, why are the blues so popular in the United States and even in other English-speaking countries?