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Blues Music in Literature . Lacey Crump. The blues is an impulse to keep the painful detail and episodes of a brutal existence alive in one’s aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism.
Jun 24, 2010 · The Blues: A Very Short Introduction surveys a genre which lies at the heart of American culture. Blues is more of a broad musical tradition than a musical genre, with a constantly evolving pop culture. It explores its roots in work and praise songs, and its popularization by W. C. Handy.
Abstract. ‘The language and poetry of the blues’ explores the lyrical component of the blues. Modern scholars treat the blues primarily as a musical style, but early scholars also studied blues songs as a form of folk poetry, arising from the common language of African Americans. Whether improvising or composing a verse, blues musicians ...
blues music’s loci, performers, and audiences shifted over time, how did the ideal of the masculine, acoustic Delta-based blues become enshrined in both scholarly and commercial reckonings of authentic blues?
Reasserting the significance of the blues as a form of Black vernacular music grounds the idea of a blues aesthetic in both a specific history and a performance practice. The genre was shaped by racialized socio-economic conditions that influenced its formal and stylistic components.
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Introduction. Both the blues aesthetic and the African-American signifying tradition have. engendered a diverse array of new critical approaches to African-American literature. Many of these approaches pertinent to literary studies are also applicable to music.
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a multiplicity of traditional and literary approaches to blues in his own poems, his use of blues is limited in expression by some dominant influ-ences. There are many different types of blues styles, often subcategorized by blues researchers in terms of geographical location and historical time period.
