Chapter 5:  Classic Blues

CLASSIC BLUES

     Blues is a musical form vocal and / or instrumental that is based on the use of notes played or sung in a low frequency, with expressive purposes, avoiding notes of the major scale, always using a repetitive structure. In the United States emerged from the corners of religious faith, called spirituals and other similar forms, such as chants, shouts and work songs, sung by the communities of freed slaves, with strong stylistic roots in West Africa. His lyrics often include subtle suggestions or protests against slavery or forms of escape.

   Created in the last century, it took its final shape only after 1900. The first recordings date from the years 10. But the Blues wait a little longer to flourish thanks to the talent of Big Bill Broonzy, Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, Bob Diddley, BB King, Lowell Fulson, John Lee Hooker, Howlin 'Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Buddy Memphis Slim Guy.

  The transgression was not alone in loving and sexual connotations of the lyrics of Blues. In the musical format, the style also marked a break.

Fleeing the complexity and rigidity of jazz scholars, the Blues began as a raw music.

    With an almost simplistic harmonic basis, the style has spread rapidly through the southern United States. Play and sing the Blues was theoretically simple. But what transformed a mere curious a true bluesman was the feeling he put into his interpretation. Ai is one more feature of the Classic Blues, emotion.

The spread of the classic style of the genre was driven by technical innovations, radio, the recording industry and the electric guitar. The blues were also shaped by social movements, migration of the southeastern United States to Memphis, Chicago and other cities.

    A small number of precursor’s blues artists had a huge impact on his followers. We highlight as precursors of classic style: Robert Johnson, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Howlin 'Wolf, Jimmy Reed, Elmore James, Albert King, John Lee Hooker and BB King .

    The early bluesmen professionals form a separate category. Unable to work manual, blind and found the music their livelihood. Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie McTell and many others Blinds (blind) started well. Also born the tradition of the itinerant musician in the classical style.

O Blues clássico fez uma contribuição significativa para o desenvolvimento do jazz e do blues como música popular e para a eventual descoberta e gravação de blues, country masculina. Ele se iniciou On Valentine's Day, l920, Mamie Smith stepped to the acoustical horn in the Okeh Company recording studios, shouted out "That Thing Called Love" for the disc spinning behind the curtain in the next room, and made history with the first recording by a black woman vocalist.no dia dos namorados, l920, Mamie Smith entrou para o corno acústico nos estúdios de gravação Okeh Companhia, gritou "That Thing Called Love" para o disco giratório por trás da cortina na sala ao lado, e fez história com a primeira gravação por um negro vocalista mulher. Africa survived in the music of early black Americans and was passed down to the blues in distinctive ways that set it apart from European musical traditions. África sobreviveu na música do início de negros americanos e foram passada para o blues de maneiras distintas que o diferenciam dos europeus, tradições musicais. E as mulheres começaram a encontrar trabalho como artistas. Achei muito interessante tudo isto, pois não fazia a mínima dessas coisas, e quando fui pesquisando achei muitas coisas interessantes, através de um estilo vão se tornando vários, que até mesmos as musicas que gostamos, podem ter vindo dele.

Kathleen Araujo de Brito