I refer to the many requests received in recent days to get my little story from the beginning.
My advice is always the same: started to come closer to this music by listening to songs that I propose from time to time, looking for when you can have the texts (for this great plugin is to use the lyrics that you can use with windows media player, winamp and itunes).
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The Blues
The blues began as a protest song, was born in the cotton fields of the Mississippi delta.
plantations where communities of African American slaves toiled underpaid and exploited.
born at night in the taverns where they met for drinking, playing and singing together.
Blues is the source of the music you hear today, from blues to jazz was born, the two styles was born boogie woogie, and then the rock'n roll and rock, with its countless variants.
It 's a vocal and instrumental musical form whose original form is characterized by a repetitive structure and the use of twelve bars, music, the so-called blue notes. The structure
antiphonal (call and response) and the use of blue notes (a diminished fifth interval which considers the classical harmony and dissonant in Italy earned the nickname of the blues music out of tune), apparently, the blues to musical forms 's West Africa.
The English meaning of the adjective blue, is related to the association between the color blue and a sense of nostalgia and sadness of the typical African-American music.
contemporary Being Blue in English means "being sad" and "Blue" is a term used to define the blues.
The first use in music dates back to 1912 when WC Handy Memphis Blues Memphis public (but it is assumed that the use is older).
In the lyrics, the phrase generally refers to a melancholy mood.
The origins of the blues are the subject of much discussion.
In particular, there is no precise date birth to the genre: the oldest evidence of a musical form similar to the blues is the story that in 1901 became an archaeologist in Mississippi described the work songs that blacks seem to have affinity with the lyrical and melodic blues.
One of the most important ancestors of blues is undoubtedly the spiritual, born in the early nineteenth century, melancholy and religious argument.
Other ancestors of the blues can be sought between the song work (work song) of the black slaves (field hollers) and elsewhere (the port or stevedore songs, songs of the laborers or Roustabout), which sounded at that time in America of the Civil War (and subsequent years, in which the condition of subjection and poverty of African Americans remained despite the abolition of slavery).
From these blues songs probably inherited his call and response structure of African origin, but by borrowing its structure from the harmonic and instrumental European tradition.
The use of African origin are known to play guitar with a knife (mentioned by Handy in his autobiography) and the diddley bow, an instrument made from a single string stretched over a wooden board, which modulating the sound is pinched by a slide made of glass.
The use of voice, guitar and harmonica were the instruments can play discordant notes (bending) they needed to bring their music to that of their ancestors.
These "false notes" are still the indelible mark of the blues sound, and can be classified into different types depending on the range at which they are applied and the areas where they have developed.
fascinating to discover the source of black music that we hear today, going forward we will see how can a style that comes from the suburbs of Harlem or the brothels of New Orleans, to become world-class business and buy only when it is absorbed by the white that owners of the media, manage to impose the general public.
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