ORIGINS OF THE BLUES
Officially adopted the term blues 1910.Blues new year is a school of vocal and instrumental music from the United States (US). The name was born from the term blue blues connotations with feelings of frustration and melancholy. Blues departed from spiritual music and praise that emerged from the former communities of African slaves in the United States. And began to grow rapidly in the 19th century AD, the US.
According to the authors, scientists and researchers at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York, Sylviane Diouf, the Blues have a tradition of relations with the Muslim community in West Africa. To prove the relationship between American blues music with Muslim tradition, Diouf play two recordings. The first listened to the public that is present in a room at Harvard University is chanting the adhan (call for Muslims to perform prayers). After that, Diouf play Levee Camp Holler.
The second recording is a legacy Blues song, which first appeared in the Mississippi Delta about 100 years ago. Levee Camp Holler is not a blues song that is fairly normal. The song was created by the black community of West African Muslim origin who worked in the post-Civil War America. Levee Camp Holler songs that emphasize words that sound vibrates. According to Diouf, the nasal style between songs Blues Levee Cam Holler similar to the adhan is also an evidence of the linkage between the two.
Professor of Ethnomusicology from the University of Mainz, Germany, named Prof Gehard Kubik also wrote a book about blues music relation with the Islamic civilization in West Africa titled, Africa and the Blues, published University Press of Mississippi on 1999.Prof Kubik has proven it. "Blues singer's vocal style mostly using melisma, wavy intonation. Vocal style as it is a relic of the people in West Africa who have been in contact with the Islamic world since the 7th century, and 8 M, "he said. Melisma uses many tones in one syllable.
DEVELOPMENT OF MUSIC BLUES
The previous blues musicians often use a banjo, and in line with technological developments in the musical instruments, the musicians of blues musicians began using guitars. Blues music continues to grow. In fact, in every area of American blues music bore a different color such as Chicago Blues (Muddy Waters, Koko Taylor), Delta Blues (Robert Lockwood Jr.), East Coast Blues (John Jackson) and Texas Blues (Mike Morgan & The Crawl).
Then in the early decades of the '60s blues music in America has decreased prominence, so that the American record company did not want to sign them. So that blues bands from England and then fill that void. The British musicians such as The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, John Mayal and Bluesbreaker finally gave a new atmosphere for the American blues musician.
Modern electric blues blues is a subgenre of the most popular to date. Then from the genre, born dozens of blues music figure like B.B. King, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hocker, Jhony Winter, Koko Taylor, Robert Cray, Taj Mahal, Dave Hole, Tinsley Ellis Freddie King, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Kenny Wayne Shepherd.
Guitarist Jimi Hendrix also included figures blues music that influenced other musicians. With the new technique of guitar playing, Jimi became a pioneer in the music that dominated electric blues sound very impressive, which then attracted the attention of other guitarists to further explore sound.Jimi also famous by blues numbers such as red house and voodoo child. After the emergence of the era of Jimi Hendrix, many pop rock blues musicians like the late Stevie Ray Vaughan, Tinsley Ellis, the Taj Mahal and Kenny Wayne Shepherd.
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