The complete 19th and 20th century were swept and engulfed in revolution around the world, not peculiarly marked with guns, tanks or any other annihilating movements. But mostly, marked with the rebellious morals, that asserted sovereign ideas and upbringing of new art and aesthetics.
Blues, both a musical form and musical genre is chiseled out of the secular folk music, by the African-Americans in the early 20th century. Blued, originally comes from south but since its inception it has influenced and motivated the expressive forms of music. Blues had become by the1960s one of the most important influences on the development of popular music throughout the United States and still prevails.
Blues, both a musical form and musical genre is chiseled out of the secular folk music, by the African-Americans in the early 20th century. Blued, originally comes from south but since its inception it has influenced and motivated the expressive forms of music. Blues had become by the1960s one of the most important influences on the development of popular music throughout the United States and still prevails.
The African influences are apparent in the blues tonality, the response and the pattern, repeated refrain structure of the blues stanza, the falsetto break in the vocal style, and the stroking imitation of vocal idioms by instruments, especially the guitar and harmonica.
Though the origin of the blues is poorly documented it was developed in the southern United States after the American Civil War (1861–65). It was influenced by work songs and field hollers. It was 19th century which marked some of the tremendous singers and eventually legends in the world Music scene.
W.C. Handy’s (1912), composed “Memphis Blues” which became hugely popular, and thereafter the scene was flooded by fine singers. BB king, Robert Johnson, John Dawson "Johnny" Winter, Memphis Minnie McCoy-Lawler, Jimmy Rogers and many other achieved the exemplary might in producing some of the finest blues music.
