Blues Journey: Got Them Blues - A History
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- Опубліковано 5 бер 2019
- As enslaved people toiled in the fields, they often sang to communicate with each other and pass the time. These work songs, spirituals, and field hollers formed the basis of blues music as it became an important sound of the American South in the early 20th century. In the 1930s, faced with extreme poverty and laws that discriminated against and segregated them, thousands of African Americans migrated to northern cities, taking the blues with them- where both the songs and the singers adapted to their new urban environment.
The story of the blues travels from the coasts of Africa, through the cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta, across the hills of Appalachia, to the streets of Chicago and beyond. The roots of blues can be found in slave songs, spirituals, and field hollers of the American South; its sound can be heard in early rock-and-roll, and in today's alternative and hip hop landscapes. Journey with us to learn about the influences and impact the blues has had on musical culture.
It's amazing how many people don't know that basically all modern popular music - including all forms of music descended from rock, go back to blues, which go back to slave songs and hollers, which in major part go back to west African traditional music.
Plastic pop, Viking metal, gabber, progressive trance... all of it carries the musical DNA of African traditional music in it, even if deeply buried under many layers of subsequent diversification and experimentation.
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It does not go back to Africa. The blues is distinct As black american. Who are also indigenous to America's. This is a unique form of black culture. No these are black anericans. And their culture. No where else in the world generated the conditions apon this music coming to be
@deepimpactsunperseusCan you point me to old footage of African tribes singing or playing the blues. By old I mean before Black Americans.
Very concise and informative, i enjoyed all the original audio clips . Blues music is a living testament to the difficulties the ex slaves faced when trying to assimilate into a culture with no education and only homemade instruments, music, cooking, singing and dancing as a means to bridge cultural gaps, profit, and survive in an (at best) indifferent capitalist society, and at worst open hatred and violence at the hands of the kkk and other conservative groups. LBJ's later signing the civil rights act drove most of the overt white racists to the conservative movement which was embraced with "southern strategy" politics, in the 60's and since have been well received and their signal boosted in the trump era. This is important context for anyone wishing to understand how power, privilege, and prestige reinforce themselves amongst the owning class in society, and an intro into the major political realignment the parties underwent from the civil war.
Thank you for this!
Hello I´m Peruvian and I´ve been learning a little about Blue´s History. Thanks
The songs about the slaves are nice 👍
What is the song called at the beginning
Crossroad blues
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Hi, I'm trustworthy white guy, here's a history of the blacks and their music
The million dollar question… would you, at the cost of Blues music, rather slavery had NOT happened?
The blues may have been invented in the Deep South American but THE Rolling STONES perfected the blues
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@@jt7322 cant argue with the facts… they sold more albums & made more money than any other blues artists
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The million dollar question… would you, at the cost of Blues music, rather slavery had NOT happened?
yes...come on.
it's a good question... not only would we lose blues, but also Rock, Soul, Funk, even modern EDM
What heathen question is that. The progress of a people out weigh the blues by 100 times magnitude
Regardless of slavery, which was and is still terrible, blues music in my eyes isn’t rooted in the idea of slavery, it’s rooted in the idea of oppression and struggle. These two factors exist regardless of slavery.
Also, a lot of things we today think is extremely magnificent and such an accomplishment of man, is actually due to slavery. The Egyptian pyramids for example. It’s not bad to admire these structures, or in this case, the blues, it’s good to admire the structures and other resulting things because of the fact that people still built or made them despite their status at the time. We can still respect the feats of people who accomplished some otherwise impossible feats outside of slavery. Can you imagine the cost of building the pyramids today and likely the lack of quality if it was done today in a standard payroll corporation? Slavery was and is terrible treatment of people, but the results from such things is beautiful due to the people’s innate ability to thrive and act even in dire circumstances. I feel that’s the lack of education or observation of some. Blues may have originated from slavery as we know it, but it doesn’t mean that we as a people would have lacked the ability to create such a beautiful genre of music outside of slavery.