MUS 206 Lecture 1: The Land Where the Blues Began Video Notes

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7 May 2018

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Blues is America’s most distinct style of music

● Mississippi Delta

Picnic music is relic of old-time South

● Group

Clyde Maxwell -- hear sounds of the blues in work songs (solo)

“It takes a man that has the blues to sing the blues”

● Songs that voiced unspoken anger

Free rhythm field hollowers allowing for more blues rhythms to grow

In the society of the blues, only the church allowed solace to wounded individuals from

penitentiary.

Many black sermons are poems of epic beauty

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