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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Re: Let me add something here... posted by JHS on February 27, 2001 at 20:47:34:
In the very early Blues (pre WC Handy) there was no real structure, a song could go all the way through on just one chord or what ever the Bluesman felt like doing. The European musical thought in the States at that time couldn't handle music that can't be written down. So the 12 bar format in 4/4 time was the whites or educated Blacks way of a musical education for the Bluesman. The same thing happened to spirituals turning into gospel music. Trying to write these music’s down on paper took away a lot of the idiosyncrasies & emotional impact. It did open up a line of work for the Blues as it was easier for white people to listen too a 12 bar structure in 4/4 time. Maybe we can thank WC Handy for the sanitized white Blues of the 1960s. I call it good Rock n Roll rather than Blues. Thank God that we had Son House, Bukka White, & early Muddy Waters as signposts to what it might have been like way back then.
regards rod
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- Europeans put in the 4/4 time - R B 23:00:05 02/27/01 (2)
- Re: Europeans put in the 4/4 time - JHS 17:21:29 03/01/01 (1)
- Now I'm not so sure - R B 07:29:22 03/02/01 (0)
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