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Callum McMahon's List: Music Styles
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Jun 21, 09
“Robert Johnson to me is the most important blues musician who ever lived....I have never found anything more deeply soulful than Robert Johnson. His music remains the most powerful cry that I think you can find in the human voice.”
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Jun 18, 09
Dorsey was a consummate musician and as a young man accompanied some of the most famous blues singers of all time-specifically, Bessie Smith (1894-1937) and Ma Rainey (1886-1939)
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Dorsey was a consummate musician and as a young man accompanied some of the most famous blues singers of all time-specifically, Bessie Smith (1894-1937) and Ma Rainey (1886-1939)
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t emerged as an accessible form of self-expression in
African-American communities of the United States from spirituals, work songs,field holler s, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrativeballad s. -
"functional expression... style without
accompaniment or harmony and unbounded by the formality of any particular musical structure." [Garofalo, pg. 44]
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Harmonically, blues was a hand-built compromise between the modal music of Africa and the diatonic (chord changes) music of Europe.
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