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Music originally developed (thousands and thousands of years ago) as a means to coordinate and synchronise collective human movement, such as for hunting or farming. Even today, it comes natural to start singing a rhythmic song to accompany the activity of a group of people, whether hiking in the mountains of building a roof.

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In the 1920's and 1930s Blues musicians started to become popular with white communities. Influenced by songs from the fields they created careers as performing and recording artists

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Who is the man in the Black Suit?

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Who is the man who throws the cigarette lighter?

'Southern trees bear strange fruit

Blood on the leaves and blood at the root

Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze

Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees'

Billie Holiday

Many work songs sung by enslaved individuals may have been sung to remind the Africans of home and as a means of withstanding hardship and expressing anger and frustration

Robert Johnson

What's going on here?

'Field Hollers'

featured a call and response technique

Faust & Mephistopheles

In which country did Blues music

come from?

A. Spain

B. America

C. Germany

Which group of people do we credit with inventing Blues music?

A. Poor black people sold into slavery in America

B. Poor Native American Indians

C. Rich people in New York

40% of all men women and children taken from their homes in Africa and sold into Slavery in America were carried in ships owned by companies in

A. New York

B. Paris

C. Liverpool

"I went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees"

"I went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees"

"Asked the Lord above "Have mercy, now save poor Bob, if you please"

Blind Lemon Jefferson

Listen to the lyrics of the song. It has a three-line verse structure where the second line repeats the first -

This is called AAB structure

This song, like many blues songs, feature a short instrumental break (solo) after each line – a sort of call and response.

The Blues

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