Blues by Thomas Deng https://padlet.com/thomas_2098361/x7fo5ib2qs15 en-us 2017-09-28 23:15:42 UTC 2025-11-04 22:44:29 UTC hello@padlet.com Where were the Blues found/formed? thomas_2098361 https://padlet.com/thomas_2098361/x7fo5ib2qs15/wish/192295703 The exact origin and year of the blues is unknown, beacause of its evolution throughout the years. The closest resemblance was found in 1901 by an architect describing the music played by African Americans in Mississippi.]]> 2017-09-28 23:18:49 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_2098361/x7fo5ib2qs15/wish/192295703 Chart thomas_2098361 https://padlet.com/thomas_2098361/x7fo5ib2qs15/wish/192295964 Below is a chart which shows multiple genres of music and which age group listens to it. But let's focus on blues. As you can see, 33% of all people listen to blues music. Of that 33%, about 50% of them are ages 45 and above. ]]> 2017-09-28 23:21:33 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_2098361/x7fo5ib2qs15/wish/192295964 Prominent Singers or Bands thomas_2098361 https://padlet.com/thomas_2098361/x7fo5ib2qs15/wish/192296133 1. BB King
2. Buddy Guy
3. Robert Johnson
4. Bessie Smith
5. Muddy Waters
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For many people, BB King is Blues. The Rolling Stones magazine has him listed #3 on '100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.' For over 60 years now, he has been recording music and performing. He is so popular that he has gotten fame into blues clubs and even has his own station on the Sirius XM Radio system, "BB King's Bluesville."]]> 2017-09-28 23:23:42 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_2098361/x7fo5ib2qs15/wish/192296133 Background Information of the Blues thomas_2098361 https://padlet.com/thomas_2098361/x7fo5ib2qs15/wish/192296505 W.C. Handy, an "African American leader of a dance orchestra", was on a train and had nothing to do but wait until he arrived to Tutwiler, Mississippi. He had nothing to and so all he could do was sleep and hope he would arrive. Soon, when he woke up, "a ragged black man" was singing some lyrics which would soon become the blues.
Why is blues music called “the blues”? The name of this great American music most likely originated from the 17th-century English expression “the blue devils,” for the intense visual hallucinations that comes with alcohol withdrawal. Shortened over time to “the blues,” it eventually received the definition of being in agitation or in depression. “Blue” was slang for “drunk” by the 1800s. The link between “blue” and drinking is also indicated by “blue laws” that still prohibit Sunday alcohol sales in some states of the US.]]> 2017-09-28 23:27:32 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_2098361/x7fo5ib2qs15/wish/192296505 Description of Sound and the Rhythm it Gave thomas_2098361 https://padlet.com/thomas_2098361/x7fo5ib2qs15/wish/192302743 Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of "blue notes." It emerged in Black communities in the US from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads.

"Blue notes," also known as "worried notes," are the flattened third, fifth, and seventh degrees in a major scale. This is what gives the blues its prominent minor tonality.

Blues music later influenced many genres such as jazz, rock and roll, and even modern-day pop.
]]> 2017-09-29 00:29:21 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_2098361/x7fo5ib2qs15/wish/192302743 Some Other Genres That Influenced the Blues thomas_2098361 https://padlet.com/thomas_2098361/x7fo5ib2qs15/wish/192302874 It's generally accepted that the music derived from African spirituals, chants. Also from work songs, field hollers during the existence of slavery as well as rural life and drum music, revivalist hymns, and country dance music.]]> 2017-09-29 00:30:38 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_2098361/x7fo5ib2qs15/wish/192302874 How the Blues Got Developed thomas_2098361 https://padlet.com/thomas_2098361/x7fo5ib2qs15/wish/192302920 Blues music itself is about "personal adversity...overcoming hard times. Blues grew up in the Mississippi River Delta which is just upriver from New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz. Jazz and blues music have always influenced each other.
W.C. Handy, an "African American leader of a dance orchestra", was on a train and had nothing to do but wait until he arrived to Tutwiler, Mississippi. He had nothing to and so all he could do was sleep and hope he would arrive. Soon, when he woke up, "a ragged black man" was singing some lyrics which would soon become the blues.]]> 2017-09-29 00:31:13 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_2098361/x7fo5ib2qs15/wish/192302920 Reflection of American Culture During the Blues thomas_2098361 https://padlet.com/thomas_2098361/x7fo5ib2qs15/wish/192302999 During the time that blues was becoming popularized, prohibition was taking place. As described in 'Background Information' blues came from the English phrase 'the blue-devils' which were intense visual hallucinations that come with alcohol withdrawal. In many blues songs, you can hear many lyrics referring to alcohol, hard times, etc.]]> 2017-09-29 00:32:03 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_2098361/x7fo5ib2qs15/wish/192302999 Influence on the American Culture thomas_2098361 https://padlet.com/thomas_2098361/x7fo5ib2qs15/wish/192303368  Pop music stars have drawn influence from early blues artists, such as Elvis Presley, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross, Mos Def, and Nas. They all have used approaches devised by the earliest practitioners of the blues as a way of appealing to different audiences in different circumstances and at different times. ]]> 2017-09-29 00:35:07 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_2098361/x7fo5ib2qs15/wish/192303368 How does the music give insight into the physical/figurative borders of time, place, and space? thomas_2098361 https://padlet.com/thomas_2098361/x7fo5ib2qs15/wish/192304125 The music gives insight into the physical and figurative borders of time, place and space from the way we hear the music. The fact that after the end of slavery (1863) most blacks weren't given complete equality. The blues must have evolved from slavery into this new era with a mission to equalize all races in america.]]> 2017-09-29 00:41:19 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_2098361/x7fo5ib2qs15/wish/192304125 Video/Audio thomas_2098361 https://padlet.com/thomas_2098361/x7fo5ib2qs15/wish/192304266 Here is a live performance of a famous blues song, Boom Boom-John Lee Hooker. ]]> 2017-09-29 00:42:43 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_2098361/x7fo5ib2qs15/wish/192304266