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英语歌曲文化赏析:R&B blues
Blues
- How musical talented and optimistic those black slaves in North america are:
Entertain themselves by doing sth musical
Such as playing instruments and singing.
- 美国civilrize movement
occasions the black sing songs:
- Negro spiritual: sing songs in the church
- work songs: 工作号子，需要team work的重体力活的需要。
What is blues
布鲁斯音阶blues scale/ Blues structure
Blues is the name given to a musical form that originated in African-Amercan communities of primarily the “Deep South” of United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballad.
R&B:节奏布鲁斯
R&B and Blues:
related to great migration;迁徙潮：大规模人口流动。
One of the most famous ones: civil war.
African American gospel非洲裔美国人福音歌a.k.a基督教赞美诗
唱腔变得收敛，从spirital 到 gosepel 以后就有如此变化
Soul secular(宗教生活外)
Soul，歌词替换成世俗化版本的黑人福音歌
也就是为什么Gospel 和R&B共同构成Soul
Ragtime拉格泰姆
instrumental music
- 切分：syncopation/
- 即兴的：improvisation
Jazz：更迎合白人口味
切分+即兴+哀婉(blues)= Jazz
Jazz was born in New Orleans(路易斯安那)
While Jazz come from:
Differences between blues and Jazz
