MUSI 1520 Lecture : Lectures Notes - MUSI 1520 R&B, Soul, Funk, Rap.docx
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Lecture notes fa/musi 1520: soul, jazz, funk, r&b. Paramount records never became a major record label had a good collection. Delta blues comes from delta, mississippi (usually one person + one guitar) One dime blues = simple beat, 3 lines repeated. John & alan lamar are really important. Took a wrong turn, died in chicago (most artists meet + have a sad ending) At this time, musicians would be happy with an audience of 1. All that mattered was that 1 person would hear their song. I"m broke and i aint got a dime, You want your friend to be bad like. To be popular you need a record. Emancipation of slavery in the south + jim crow laws (discriminatory laws between coloured and white people in the us) Cheap way out of the south was to perform. Artists were driven to go to chicago, new orleans. Born in april 1891 to a white owner, mother was a black slave.