MSC HST 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Maybelle Carter, Skillet Lickers, Carter Family
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Ma rainey (1894-1939) mother of blues : deep moaning blues . Bessie smith (1894-1937) empress of the blues : lost your head blues . Huge population of african american moving from the south to the west. During the 2 great migrations, many delta blues musicians moved up the. Blues culture is alive all along the mississippi river! Chess recording studio: chess brothers were a major recording studio, phil chess, leonard chess. Amplification: most cities are now electrified, chess brothers said that we don"t need loud singing women anymore, acoustic guitar -> electric guitar, electric guitars became the dominant instrument of the genre. Blues harp: singer, improvisation was chopped down to a single solo of improv over the rhythm section. Chicago blues: most popular, influential version of urban blues. Most influential urban blues musicians: t-bone walker. Big admirer of bessie smith; himself deeply embedded in. With wolf, blues breaks out of the confines of its original form.
