is known about the exact origin of the music now known as the blues. No specific year can be cited as its origin, largely because the style evolved over...
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elements, such as the call-and-response format and the use of blue notes, can be traced back to the music of Africa. The origins of the blues are also closely...
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homeland to the United States and back. Some[which?] scholars and ethnomusicologists have speculated that the origins of the blues can be traced to the musical...
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and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s. The term...
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influences. Later examples are often closer to blues rock and Southern rock. Texas blues began to appear in the early 1900s among African Americans who worked...
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Roots rock (category American styles of music)
genre of rock music that looks back to rock's origins in folk, blues and country music. It is seen as responses to the perceived excesses of the dominant...
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Jazz (redirect from History of jazz)
originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European...
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Vocalion 1468 Anthology of American Folk Music Origins of the blues Shadwick, Keith (2001). "Henry Thomas". Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues. Ann Arbor, Michigan:...
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The Blues Brothers are an American blues and soul revue band founded in 1978 by comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, who met and began collaborating...
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2024-06-02. "James Tedesco to replace injured Dylan Edwards for the Blues in State of Origin opener". abc.net.au. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2 June...
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The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical action comedy film directed by John Landis. It stars John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues and Dan Aykroyd...
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The twelve-bar blues (or blues changes) is one of the most prominent chord progressions in popular music. The blues progression has a distinctive form...
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protopunk and blues rock. Its origins lie strongly within the garage rock sound of the 1960s and 1970s. Punk blues can be said to favor the common rawness...
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seven documentaries about the blues: Feel Like Going Home (Martin Scorsese): about the African origins of the blues The Soul of a Man (Wim Wenders): about...
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as the home of the blues which developed among the freed African Americans in the latter half of the 19th century and beginning 20th century. The Delta...
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West Coast blues is a type of blues music influenced by jazz and jump blues, with strong piano-dominated sounds and jazzy guitar solos, which originated...
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Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) is one of the earliest forms of blues music. The mainly solo vocal with...
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Rock and roll (category Culture of the Southern United States)
heard in blues records from the 1920s and in country records of the 1930s, the genre did not acquire its name until 1954. According to the journalist...
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Electric blues is blues music distinguished by the use of electric amplification for musical instruments. The guitar was the first instrument to be popularly...
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The Moody Blues were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in May 1964. The band initially consisted of Graeme Edge (drums), Denny Laine (guitar/vocals)...
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British blues is a form of music derived from American blues that originated in the late 1950s, and reached its height of mainstream popularity in the 1960s...
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Contemporary R&B (redirect from Contemporary Rhythm & Blues)
music genre that combines rhythm and blues with elements of pop, soul, funk, hip hop, and electronic music. The genre features a distinctive record production...
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Gil Scott-Heron (redirect from The Godfather of Rap)
"bluesologist", his own term for "a scientist who is concerned with the origin of the blues". His poem "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised", delivered over a jazz-soul...
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Soul blues is a style of blues music developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s that combines elements of soul music and urban contemporary music. African...
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The Memphis blues is a style of blues music created from the 1910s to the 1930s by musicians in the Memphis area, such as Frank Stokes, Sleepy John Estes...
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Nanker Phelge (category The Rolling Stones)
Oldham the 'Nanker Phelge' credit was mostly used for tracks where the origin lay in blues standards from the 1950s they heard when visiting the Chess...
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ragtime-vaudeville, Delta and country blues, and urban styles from Chicago and the West Coast. In the last several decades, blues music has developed a less regional...
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Mississippi Fred McDowell (category American blues guitarists)
It contains parts of an interview in which he discusses the origins of the blues and the nature of love. His live album Live at the Mayfair Hotel (1995)...
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Jump blues is an up-tempo style of blues, jazz, and boogie woogie usually played by small groups and featuring horn instruments. It was popular in the 1940s...
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to the Americas—see Origins of the blues). The compilation was produced and coordinated by Phil Stanton & Sandra Alayón-Stanton, co-founders of the World...
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