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21. Mai 2024 · Who wrote the first blues song? What was the first recorded blues song? We dig deep to find out the fascinating history of recorded blues.
17. Juni 2024 · Blues, secular folk music created by African Americans in the early 20th century, originally in the South. The simple but expressive forms of the blues became by the 1960s one of the most important influences on the development of popular music. Learn more about blues, including notable musicians.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- The blues is a form of secular folk music created by African Americans in the early 20th century, originally in the South. Although instrumental ac...
- In the 19th century the English phrase blue devils referred to the upsetting hallucinations brought on by severe alcohol withdrawal. This was later...
- The origins of the blues are poorly documented, but it is believed that after the American Civil War (1861–65), formerly enslaved African Americans...
- In the early 20th century the blues (among several other popular genres of music) was considered seductive and destructive by parents and clergy wh...
- The blues has a distinct melancholic and somber tone, which is achieved through vocal techniques such as melisma, rhythmic techniques such as synco...
21. Feb. 2024 · The years from 1920 to 1930 were critical in the history of blues music. The boom of the recording industry added fuel to the spread of blues music, allowing artists to distribute their music further than ever. Record labels started to actively record African-American artists as they led the way in popular new genres, including blues ...
- Musicnotes
Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.
9. Feb. 2024 · Blind Bobby Baker recorded the tune first in 1927, but Smith quickly took possession of it and helped transform it into a much-loved blues evergreen that has been recorded more than 200...
- Brett Milano
Blues Music in History. Important events, famous birthdays and historical deaths from our searchable today in history archives.
1937---First discs by “Sonny Boy” John Lee Williamson, including “Good Morning, School Girl”. 1938---Big Joe Turner records with boogie woogie man, Pete Johnson. 1st. electric guitar in blues, played by white jazzman, George Barnes; on a record by Jazz Gillum for Bluebird label.
