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Country Blues is a blanket term for Pre-War, acoustic guitar-driven Blues, made by solo, duo, and string band performers. There are several regional variations and styles, including Delta, Piedmont, Atlanta, Memphis, Texas, Chicago, Delta, ragtime, and folk.
9 Μαΐ 2018 · Contrary to what some people believe, the blues is not “slave music.” Although it was cultivated by the descendants of slaves, the blues was the expression of freed African Americans. The Great Migration directly influenced the blues’ many evolutions.
Prewar Country Blues is acoustic, country-blues that was recorded before World War II. It refers to a number of different of styles, including Delta Blues, Memphis Blues and jugbands, but all of them are recognizable by their acoustic instrumentation, folk songs and rural feel.
10 Νοε 2024 · Blues, secular folk music created by African Americans in the early 20th century, originally in the South. The simple but expressive forms of the blues became by the 1960s one of the most important influences on the development of popular music. Learn more about blues, including notable musicians.
By the 1920s, when country music was being recorded and broadcast for the first time, slavery had been abolished for more than half a century, but segregation was still rigidly enforced in...
‘Prewar blues’ charts the development of blues music up until 1939. Whilst record companies found ethnic records generally profitable, they assumed that African Americans liked white music. That is until Mamie Smith recorded Crazy Blues, and spawned a craze for ‘blues queens’.
Blues music first swept the United States in the early 1910s, remained a driving force in the pop mainstream for some six decades, and continues to be played and heard around the world.
