rable part of contemporary music. In the course of time new genres appeared, others - disappeared. I suggest to start our journey with the Blues. Does somebody like the Blues?
Student 3: Yes, I do. The earlier history of the Blues is almost entirely Negro. Its musical tradition is traced as far back as 1860s. The word "blue" has been associated with the idea of melancholia or depression since the times of Queen Elizabeth.
When African and European music first began to merge to create what eventually became the blues, the slaves sang song of their extreme suffering and privation.
Some "bluesologists" claim, that the first blues song that was ever written down was "Dallas Blues", published in 1912 by Hart Wand (слайд 3), a white violist from Okhlahoma City.
Instrumental blues had been recorder as early as 1913. Mamie Smith (слайд 4) recordered the first vocal blues song, "Crazy Blues" in 1920. During the twenties, the blues became a national craze. Records by leading blues singers like Bessie Smith and later in the thirties, Billie Holiday (слайд 5) were sold in million.
Since the sixties, rock guitarists, such as Eric Clapton, Timmy Page, and Eddie Van Halen (слайд 6) have used the blues as a foundation for offshoot styles. While B. B. King (слайд 7) and other musicians continued to make fantastic music in the blues tradition.
Stevie Wonder
No New Years day to celebrate
No chocolate covered candy hearts to give away
No first to of spring
No song to sing
In fact heres just another ordinary day
No April rain
No flowers bloom
No wedding Saturday within the month of June
But what it is, is something true
Made up of these three words that I
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