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1 BIRTH OF THE BLUES The South: Negro Music By Julian Alvarez

2 When did most blue’s scholars believe it was born? Most Scholars of the blues believed it was born shortly before 1900. What would you most likely here the blues? You would most likely here this music at home, work, chain gangs, dance halls, along road, riding a mule, or trains. What had the blues become by the time of WW1? The blues had became part of Americas music. Were had the blues spread towards by the 1930’s and 1940’s? The blues spread Northwood with migration of many blacks. Did Any Single Person Invent The Blues? No one really knows.

3 While we will never know for sure, it is likely that music originally developed (thousands and thousands of years ago) as a means to coordinate and synchronize collective human movement, such as for hunting or farming. Even today, it comes natural to start singing a rhythmic song to accompany the activity of a group of people, whether hiking in the mountains of building a roof. Presumably, great singers held an important social status just like shamans or top hunters. Later, as percussion instruments developed to accompany music, individual percussionists may have also emerged. Then new kinds of instruments, not only percussive, emerged that further enabled virtuoso playing.

4 What Are The Blues? When you think blues you think of adversity, betrayal, and rue (regret) For example You lose your job, you get the blues. Your best companion dies, you get the blues. Your mate falls out of love with you, you get the blues. The Blues is melancholic music of black American folk origin, typically in a harmonic progression It developed in the country of southern US toward the end of the 19th century, finding a wider audience in the 1940s as blacks migrated to the cities. This urban blues gave rise to rhythm and blues and rock and roll. lyrics often deal with personal adversity, the music itself goes far beyond self pity. The blues is also about overcoming hard luck, saying what you feel, ridding yourself of frustration, letting your hair down, and simply having fun. The best blues is gut feeling, cleansing, and starkly emotional. From unrestrained joy to deep sadness, no form of music communicates more genuine emotion.

5 Has a Sad And Cold Feeling. Has That Raging Feeling To It.


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