INI234H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: African-American Music, Structural Violence, B-Boying
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They reflect the desires for things to change and a vision of something different. Influence on the blues: church music and song styles from western african are the two genres where the blues are created from. Spirituals are the pre-blues blues, with a religious undertone, as the blues forms it because gospel music without the gospel in it. Key elements of blues songs: hard love stories, lost love, hard situations, things that make you blue, freedom for escape. Remember that there is an escape or way out of your situation. Plantation ideology: the conditions of the great migration inspire alot of the songs created in the blues era. How the plantations and the conditions of them. Racism and paternalism how other racial groups needs to take care of others, ex. How white folks felt like they were the parents and had to take care of the black folks.
