Robert Johnson
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In my opinion, different age always has styles of song in proportion to it. Black men were treated as slaves. They wanted to release their pressure psychologically and reduced the pain, so they tried to song these music when they are in leisure time. Blues are developed from these songs. Blues has a special mode, I mean, its style include calling and responsing. As a result, when I heard blues, I would feel sad and helpless. However, blues could give me another feeing later, so blues seemed to soothe my mood in the same time. Therefore, I think blues can reflect with the background of history. Moreover, the melody and the lyrics always tell some sad stories, but they also want people to have a dream or hope in the future.
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The blues are usually sad. These contents of lyrics have a relation with the darkness for people in life. For example, these lyrics tell that peole are hard in their life, people lose their love, and so on. When we hear some of them, we will feel sad. However, some melody are not so blue to make us feel unhappy, they sometimes are very brisk. I think they just hope people never to give up.
I agree with you. Blues is not always sad; however, the blues lyrics always have something to tell us about Afro-American culture. Additionally, we usually see that the most important art styles have been created by populations which have had many social conflicts. So, it situation makes people more thoughtful.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for such a thoughtful post! You make some great points, and I like how you connected the music of the times to the culture. I wonder if it is the same for contemporary blues musicians, though, as we get further and further from slavery? Also some very good blues artists are white. It keeps it all interesting!
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