Chapter 1 Review

Thomas Garcia

3 Chapter 1 Review

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Key Term Skill-builder

Questions for Thought

Where did the blues first appear?
How did the blues and other African-American musical forms develop from African musical origins?
What are the characteristics that distinguish a blues song from any other?
Can you think of music from any other genre (rock, jazz, etc.) that has characteristics from the blues?
What were the political and social forces that sparked the formation and the spreading of the blues from the South to the rest of the country?
How did African-American music influence popular music in the United States and worldwide?

Activity

Search for Delta blues and Chicago blues in YouTube. How many recordings were you able to find for each type of blues? Compare recordings by two different artists from each type of the blues. What characteristics can you identify that are common to all of these recordings? How do they differ?

References

Titon, Jeff Todd. “North America/Black America.” In Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World’s Peoples, 5th ed., edited by Jeff Todd Titon, 145–204. Belmont, CA: Schirmer Cengage Learning, 2009.

Figure Credits

Fig. 1-1: Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_map_-_geographic.png.

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