Blues Music

Blues Music

1. Personal and Cultural Expression

   • GLOBAL CONTEXT
   • Impacts on the World
     • America
       • Civil Rights Movement
       • Racial Discrimination
   • Blues Festivals
     • America
       • Chicago Blues Festival
       • American Folk Blues Festival
     • Asia
       • Himalayan Blues Festival
     • Britain
       • British Blues Festival
     • Other Places
       • Liri Blues Festival
       • Notodden Blues Fesrival

2. Aesthetics

   • KEY CONCEPT
   • Forms of Blues
     • Traditional Blues
       • I I I I
       • IV IV I I
       • V V I I
     • Shuffle Blues
       • I I I I
       • IV IV I I
       • V IV I I
   • Scale
     • Hexatonic Scale
       • I . bIII . IV . bV . V . bVII . I
         • Key depends on Artist
   • Chords
     • 7th Chords
   • Lyrical Form of Blues
     • A . A . B
       • A = Verse
       • B = Chorus
   • Choice
     • The choice of chords and scale for a song, as well as the type of blues (shuffle or traditional) depends on the . . .
       • Artist
       • The emotion being conveyed
     • Lyrics
       • Repetition
         • The artists repeat the lyrics to strengthen their impact on the audience
         • To emphasise on the emotion the lines that are repeated convey
         • To make the song more memorable

3. Genre

   • RELATED CONCEPT
   • Origin
     • Place
       • Farms
       • Work Areas
       • Missisipi Delta
         • Upriver from New Orleans
     • Time
       • 1900's
         • 1920 - 1930
     • People
       • Slaves
       • Farmers
       • Workers
       • No single Individual
         • Many people claim to have invented Blues
           • Examples
             • The Minstrel show bandleader W.C. Handy insisted that the blues were revealed to him in 1903 by an itinerant street guitarist at a train station in Mississippi.
       • Workers
       • No Single Individual invented the blues
         • Many People claimed to have Invented the Blues
     • African American History
       • Legacy of African American Slaves
     • Type
       • Chants
       • Worksongs
       • Rituals

4. Expression

   • RELATED CONCEPT
   • Mood of The Music
     • Emotions
       • Anger
       • Jelousy
       • Rage
       • Regret
       • Sorrow
     • Blues Music expresses deep emotions through repetition and different choices in . . .
       • Lyrics
       • Chords
         • Chord Progressions
         • Chord Choices
           • Types of Blues
             • Traditional
             • Shuffle
   • Artists
     • B.B. King
     • Buddy Guy
     • Howlin Wolf