MUS111H1 Lecture Notes - Patina, Resource Interchange File Format, Country Blues
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Influence: many performers are coming from the american south (black or white), many of whom are the working-class making monuments of themselves, making a culture that wasn t necessarily there before. R&r movies (rock around the clock 1955) etc. and records. 1950s/60s collecting and imitating of blues/r&b/r&r recordings. Working-class was quite large many of these kids hear all this working-class music coming out of the us and then start to play it themselves. Lead singers of yb s is playing the harmonica influence of the african american country blues harmonica relates it more to the blues (yet it s already related to the blues anyway. Train in a kind of 12-bar blues) Idea that much of the heaviness of r&r came out of the uk. Myth of r&r in the uk is that the british rescued all this music that na had thrown into the. Dustbins of history , later re-importing it into the us and canada not really true.
