The reading of black music in America reveals a striking thematic continuity from the earliest slave songs to the blues and later to hip hop. One such a consistent theme is the expression of the emotional reaction from the individual […]
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In a cultural evolutionist perspective there is a long line connecting the blues music to the first slaves who arrived on the soil of the north American continent at the end of the 1610’s in Virigina and on the Sea […]
Abstract: It is commonly said that black face minstrelsy is the first popular-professional musical business in America. I am only at the beginning of grasping its full impact on later music evolution as the blues. But before starting this exercise […]
Abstract : Just as blues later, slave songs communicated messages and were often a cry of despair bathed however in hope. This article highlights the role played by one such a slave song, “Follow the Drinking Gourd”, in the guidance […]
Abstract: The article aims at gathering some of the statements and arguments in the over debated question on the balance of the European and African cultural elements in the blues. It finds that the different positions in the debate bear […]
Abstract : The article puts the spots on Lucy McKim, whose role in the documentation of the sounds of slavery is largely underestimated. The publication at her initiative of two slave songs in 1862 is situated against the historical context […]
Blind James Campbell, Blind Blake, Blind Jim Brewer, Blind John Davis, Blind Boy Fuller, Blind Arvella Gray, Blind Joe Hill, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Tom Wiggins, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Blind Joe Reynolds, Blind Joe Taggar, Blind Willie […]
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