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blues-music-The-Primer-is-very-much-a-personal-commentary-on-the-great-blues-and-authentic-soul-music-produced-from-the-1940s-onwards.-We-use-the-R&B-"badge"-to-try-and-define-the-site-boundaries,-and-then-proceed-to-ignore-most-of-the-parameters-we've-set---which-means-a-few-omissions,-more-than-a-few-idiosyncratic-entries-and-maybe-a-few-pleasant-surprises-along-the-way...blues-music..blues-music.blues-music...
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One-of-the-problems-regarding-defining-what-the-blues-are-is-the-variety-of-authoritative-opinions.-The-blues-is-neither-an-era-in-the-chronological-development-of-jazz,-nor-is-it-actually-a-particular-style-of-playing-or-singing-jazz.-(Tanner-35)-Some-maintain-(mostly-musicologists)-that-the-blues-are-defined-by-the-use-of-blue-notes-(and-on-this-point-they-also-differ---some-say-that-they-are-simply-flatted-thirds,-fifths,-and-sevenths-applied-to-a-major-scale-[forming-a-pentatonic-scale];-some-maintain-that-they-are-microtones;-and-some-believe-that-they-are-the-third,-or-fifth,-or-seventh-tones-sounded-simultaneously-with-the-flatted-third,-or-fifth,-or-seventh-tones-respectively-[minor-second-intervals]).-Others-feel-that-the-song-form-(twelve-bars,-one-four-five)-is-the-defining-feature-of-the-blues.-Some-feel-that-the-blues-is-a-way-to-approach-music,-a-philosophy,-in-a-manner-of-speaking.-And-still-others-hold-a-much-wider-sociological-view-that-the-blues-are-an-entire-musical-tradition-rooted-in-the-black-experience-of-the-post-war-South. |
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