Quel est le but du blues ?

C’est un genre où le chanteur exprime sa tristesse et ses déboires (d’où l’expression « avoir le blues »). Le blues a eu une influence majeure sur la musique populaire américaine, puisqu’il est à la source du jazz, du R’n’B et du rock ‘n’ roll entre autres.

Quelle est la ville du blues ?

Nashville – Memphis – 347 kms Cette ville sur la rive du fleuve Mississippi, est connue pour être le  » berceau du blues et lieu de naissance du rock’n’roll.

What is the origin of the Blues?

• The blues derives from African American folk music, such as spirituals, shouts, and field hollers. Collections of this music begin to appear after the Civil War (such as Slave Songs of the United States, 1867), but do not provide a complete picture of what this music sounded like or where the blues came from.

What are the characteristics of Blues?

• The blues is a melancholic music of black American folk origin, usually employing a basic 12-bar chorus, the tonic, subdominant, and dominant chords, frequent minor intervals, and blue notes.

What is the connection between African and blues?

• Many of these blues elements, such as the call-and-response format, can be traced back to the music of Africa. The use of melisma and a wavy, nasal intonation also suggests a connection between the music of West and Central Africa and the blues.

What kind of music did they play in the Blues?

• The Blues was performed in a variety of settings and styles: musicians often played in ‘tent shows’ while accompanying travelling doctors, musical companies, comedians, magicians, and even circuses. Ballads would be played, as well as ragtime, Gospel songs, and folk tunes.