blues music
Twelve-bar melancholy
Blues music is a genre rooted in African American experience, originating in the Deep South in the late 19th century.
It features expressive vocals, bent notes, and typically a twelve-bar structure with call-and-response patterns.
The blues influenced virtually all subsequent American popular music—jazz, rock, R&B, and country.
She learned guitar by playing old Delta blues.
- Chicago bluesAmplified urban blues style
- rock and rollRhythm-heavy fifties pop
- juke jointsSmall rural nightclubs
- front porchCovered entry deck
- Saturday nightWeek's final evening
heartache · hard times · slide guitar · Mississippi Delta · cotton fields · bent notes · call-and-response · pentatonic scale · jazz fusion · sharecropping · Texas blues · work songs · gospel blues · Great Migration · boogie-woogie · soul music · Robert Johnson · walking bass
- Mississippi DeltaClarksdale, Cleveland, Greenville, Greenwood, Indianola
- Deep SouthAlabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi River, Mississippi Delta
- juke jointsjukebox, live music, dance floor, moonshine, bootleg liquor
- Gulf SouthNew Orleans, Louisiana Purchase, LSU, Mardi Gras, jazz
- Mid-SouthMemphis, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Nashville
- Black HistoryMartin Luther King Jr., MLK, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass
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Seventies dance music
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blues musicViennese waltz
Rapid rotating ballroom dance
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blues musicsymphonic music
Large-scale orchestral compositions
art music · classical music · orchestral music · progressive rock · electronic music