MUSIC 2II3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Blues Shouter, Cross Road Blues, Crazy Blues
10 Dec 2014
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Blues: oral tradition, demographic: african-americans, the blues according to leadbelly, a feeling , used to express sadness, about hard times , related to race relations, country blues. Delta blues: mississippi delta: acoustic, call and response, robert johnson, crossroad blues . Chicago blues : electric, more codified forms, call and response, electric blues, blues shouter (singing style, groove: complex, t. bone walker stormy monday blues . When a chord changes it moves us away from a place of rest and creates tension. The singer sings the fist line (a), then repeats it with tension released a bit (a), King: muddy waters, howlin" wolf (blues shouter supreme!, memphis minnie (crossed from country to urban blues women also participated! Bessie smith recorded it in 1920 and it sold really well (a moment when the record industry realized that their assumptions about who would buy music made by african american"s were wrong) Red hot jazz band : sung from a women"s point of view.
