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Delta Blues Essays and Term Papers
The BluesWhen was brought to Chicago it became a more powerful, hard-edged type of music, but kept its original form. This consisted of the two basic kinds of traditional blues: the Slow Blues and the Fast Blues. The names do not define the tempo of the two, because both can be played either way. The Slow ...
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A Brief History Of The BluesJoseph Machlis says that the blues is a native American musical and verse form, with no direct European and African antecedents of which we know. (p. 578) In other words, it is a blending of both traditions. Something special and entirely different from either of its parent traditions. (Although ...
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The Roots Of Blues MusicBlues is a very important type of music. Most music that you hear today
has some form of blues in it. If it wasn't for the blues there wouldn't be any
rock and roll, country, rap, pop, or jazz . Blues is also important for African
American culture. African Americans were also the people who ...
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Robert Johnson and the BluesRobert Johnson, born in Mississippi in 1911, was not only a bluesman but was also one of the most influential musicians in history. His music contained emotion, mystery, and passion which produced original blues music that many musicians looked up to. Despite being one of the most influential ...
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Robert JohnsonKing of the Delta Blues Singers: The life of , one of the most influential early blues artists, in shrouded by vague details and encompassed in mystery. His emotion filled playing and singing blends to form some of the most moving, original blues music ever produced. Ironically, despite being one ...
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Robert JohnsonKing of the Delta Blues Singers:
The life of , one of the most influential early blues artists, in shrouded by vague details and encompassed in mystery. His emotion filled playing and singing blends to form some of the most moving, original blues music ever produced. Ironically, despite ...
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History of The BluesI'm writing this essay for History of Popular Music. This subject will be based on Electric blues on how the Genre was influenced on. From where and when was Influenced, and made the genre became worldwide and popular. Nevertheless, My researches are have been minimal, but form the book I've read, ...
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The BluesIf you were choose a genre of music that had the largest effect on the western world, that would most definatly have to be the blues. In this essay I shall asses firstly where the blues came from and secondly the influence of the blues on not only modern day popular music but also the modern world ...
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The Motown SoundI can truly appreciate all forms that today's music has to offer, but I do not accept the influence Hip Hop has on our youth. It establishes a false sense of reality and does not constitute what life is really all about. Some call it the most depressing music they have ever heard, but I say ...
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Blues as an art form gave Blacks a medium to manifest their feelings. Feelings ranging from humorous to silly to depressed. Fortunately for a entire genre of music, the only way for Mckinley Morganfield to express himself was through song. Morganfield better ...
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Brownsville, TennesseeLocated in the Heart of the Tennessee Delta is , a quiet city that has maintained the charms of the past without ignoring the demands of the future. Here you’ll find state of the art farming operations, modern businesses and nationally known industries located side by side with Civil War-era ...
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Rock And Roll“America. betaking herself to formative action(as it is about time for more solid achievement, and less windy promise), must , for her purpose, cease to recognize a theory of character grown of feudal aristocracies, or form’d by merely literary standards, or from any ultramarine, full-dress ...
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Lena HorneHeather Donahue March 23, 2000 Humanities 15 Tues. & Thurs. 9:30 - 11 a.m. Page 1 was born on June 30, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents were Teddy and Edna Scottron Horne. After her father left her at the age of two in order to pursue his gambling career; her mother leaving soon after ...
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