Blue Music

Introduction

The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music whose original form is characterized by a repetitive structure of twelve beats and use, in the melody, the so-called blue notes. The roots of the blues are to be found among the songs of the African-American community of slaves on the plantations of the southern states of the United States of America (the so-called Cotton Belt) (Ward, pp. 12).

The structure antiphonal (call and response) and the use of blue notes (an interval of diminished fifth, which considers the classical harmony and dissonance in Italy earned the nickname of the blues music tune) apprehends to musical forms of the blues' West Africa. Many of the styles of modern popular music derived from or were heavily influenced by the blues. Although ragtime and spirituals do not have the same origin as the blues, these three African-American musical styles were heavily influenced each other. Other genres are derivations or at least have been strongly influenced by these: jazz, bluegrass, rhythm and blues , talking blues , rock and roll , hard rock , hip-hop , music, pop in general. The research of many musical artists brought the blues, jazz, and especially, in contact with much musical reality, creating new and different styles (Tkweme, pp.503).

Thesis Statement

“Like jazz , the rock and roll , the heavy metal and hip hop , blues has been accused of being the "devil's music" and of inciting violence and other behaviors depictive”.

History of the blues

At the turn of the 40s and 50 through Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon started to form the Chicago blues. Its specificity can be briefly recognized as a highly electrified Delta blues with an extremely intense rhythmic accent. The band Waters began his career with well-known musicians such as Jimmy Rogers , Otis Spann and Little Walter . Little Walter is a revolutionary sound harmonica . Thanks to him, today electric harmonica is a symbol of the electric blues sound. Other artists belonging to the canon include Chicago blues, Elmore James , Robert Nighthawk , Howlin 'Wolf , Sonny Boy Williamson II , Junior Wells (Warnes, pp.223).

In the same period acted developing musicians T-Bone achieve Walker - Clarence Gatemouth Brown , Texas, Guitar Slim , Louisiana, BB King in Memphis. With him in the mid-50s in Chicago have developed their own style such as Buddy Guy, Magic Sam , Otis Rush , and at the beginning of Albert King . They all had influence on later rock heroes like Eric Clapton , Jimmy Page , Jeff Beck (Ward, pp. 12).

In the mid-50s to a white audience reached a simplified form of blues-based music called rock'n'roll . Her most popular artists were Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley , Jerry Lee Lewis. 50's is a time of the greatest growth and popularity of the Chicago blues. Still, it was only black music, but the first bluesman, such as Big Bill Broonzy , visited Europe.

In the 60s it was the British blues succumbed to the fascination. Alexis Korner ...