MUSIC 0711 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Dark Was The Night, Country Blues, Ragtime
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To know the blues is to know hardship dr. nathan davis. Meaning of blues: 3 meanings feeling sound/sonority song form no official birthdate evidence of blues being sung on the plantations in the 1830s blues grew out of field hollers, work cries. Bantu rain song and signifying songs of ridicule anyone can sing the blues recipe for country blues: male vocalist, guitar, harmonica. 4 schools for the blues: delta (mississippi, alabama, louisiana, gulf area) Drone (pg 97: territory (texas, louisiana, arkansas, oklahoma, missouri, southeastern seaboard (georgia, florida, urban (chicago, kansas city, memphis) African retention, using the materials in your environment to make music. Blind williw johnson, dark was the night, cold was the ground 1927: king of the guitar evangelists race record era. Metaphorical idea of blindness in the delta bottlenecking, drone, train whistle (often imitated by artists) train whistle powerful sound of freedom for slaves. Sung by people who worked on the sea shanties.
