Inhoudsopgave
Wat betekent Blue van blues?
Blues herkennen De blues onderscheid zich van de andere muziek doordat er in de teksten uitdrukking werd gegeven aan het leed dat men onderging. Het engelse woord ´blue´ werd geassocieerd met melancholie, vandaar dat men in de negentiende eeuw deze liederen ´The blues´ ging noemen.
Wat is roots muziek?
De term rootsmuziek omschrijft een iets bredere stijl, naast country namelijk ook blues en folk. Als belangrijke invloed voor de hedendaagse americana wordt de muziek van The Band, Gram Parsons en Townes Van Zandt genoemd. De meeste vertolkers komen uit de Verenigde Staten.
What is blues rock?
Blues rock is a musical genre combining elements of blues and rock. It is mostly an electric ensemble-style music with instrumentation similar to electric blues and rock. From its beginnings in the early- to mid-1960s, blues rock has gone through several stylistic shifts and along the way inspired hard rock, Southern rock and heavy metal.
What is the history of blues music?
It came into mainstream popularity in the 1920s when it also developed its common AAB lyric pattern. Blues songs were centred around the pain of loss and injustice but also expressed the victory in outlasting these painful experiences.
What are the characteristics of Blues?
Blues rock can be characterized by bluesy improvisation, the twelve-bar blues, extended boogie jams typically focused on the electric guitar player, and often a heavier, riff -oriented sound and feel to the songs than might be found in traditional Chicago-style blues.
What happened to blues rock in the 1980s?
In the 1980s, more traditional blues styles influenced blues rock, which continues into the 2000s, with more of a return to basics. Along with hard rock, blues rock songs became the core of the music played on album-oriented rock radio in the United States, and later the classic rock format established there during the 1980s.