Style
What is call and response?
A musical interaction that Blues performers used, where vocals and instruments responded back and forth to one another
What instruments are most commonly used in Blues Music?
What physical limitation does Blind Blake have?
What is he is blind
What time period was blues discovered?
Late 19th century
Where was it discovered?
Deep south USA Mississippi Delta and east Texas
What is the 12-Bar-Blues?
This blues format follows a repeating pattern of 12 musical measures and became the standard structure for many blues songs.
What is diddley bow
What was Muddy Walters known for?
What is post-war Chicago blues
What rhymatic structure did blues include?
Call and response
Why did the religious hymms express>
Sorrows and reality of life
What is slide guitar playing?
This performance technique used metal or glass on guitarists’ fingers to create a wailing, vocal-like whine.
What motivated African artists to make their own instruments?
What is lack of money
Who were some famous artists from Muddy Water's band?
Who is Little Walter and Otis Spann
Who partially help create blues? and what did it help express
t was developed by black agricultural workers and sharecroppers to express their realities of their life.
What was happening to the African america population in the 1900s and why did blue serve as an outlet?
It served as an outlet to share stories of racism and poverty and resilience. During this time there was immense racial violence and segregation.
What are Blues Notes?
They are slightly flat notes, outside the traditional Western 12-tone scale, which helps create the emotional sound of blues music.
How were new instruments, such as the diddley bow, played?
Where to Paramount move Blind Blake's records from Chicago to save costs?
What is Grafton, Wisconsin?
To what areas did blues adapt to?
t switched to more urban areas as millions of African Americans moved to cities like Chicago
How did the rhythm of blues change? What others music forms did it inspire?
They also added more amplifiers and artificial sounds leading to the birth of electric blues and jazz.
What is melisma?
It is a vocal technique involving singing multiple notes on one syllable to emphasize emotion over technical perfection.
What were some characteristics of blues music?
What is syncopation, Call and response, and bending and altering notes
What was the name of Blake Hill's 1926 instrumental that became a massive hit?
What is “West Coast Blues”?
Why is blues considered the backbone of music
it is the backbone of music as its chord progressions are used by musicians today and it also influenced other types of music
What symbol did blues signify?
major cultural symbol as it was an art form of enduring and human resilience.