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The historian Sylviane Diouf and ethnomusicologist Gerhard Kubik identify Islamic music as an influence on blues music. [11] [12] Diouf notes a striking resemblance between the Islamic call to prayer (originating from Bilal ibn Rabah, a famous Abyssinian African Muslim in the early 7th century) and 19th-century field holler music, noting that both have similar lyrics praising God, melody, note ...
List of Pre-1940 blues musicians, showing name, birth and death year, origin, primary style, and references; Name Birth year Death year Origin Primary style Ref(s) Mozelle Alderson: 1904 1994 Ohio Country blues [4] Alger "Texas" Alexander: 1900 1954 Texas Country blues [5] Ora Alexander: c.1909: Unknown: Alabama Classic female blues [6] Albert ...
Blues musical styles, forms (12-bar blues), melodies, and the blues scale have influenced many other genres of music, such as rock and roll, jazz, and popular music. [129] Prominent jazz, folk or rock performers, such as Louis Armstrong , Duke Ellington , Miles Davis , and Bob Dylan have performed significant blues recordings.
The acoustic roots-focused movement also gave rise to the terms "folk blues" and "acoustic blues", especially being applied to performances and recordings made around this period. [1] "Country blues" has also been used to describe regional acoustic styles, such as Delta blues, Piedmont blues, or the earliest Chicago, Texas, and Memphis blues. [1]
The following list of nicknames of blues musicians complements the existing list of blues musicians by referring to their nicknames, stage names and pseudonyms, thereby helping to clarify possible confusion arising over artists with similar or the same nicknames. The list is arranged in alphabetical order by nickname rather than surname.
Although Delta blues certainly existed in some form or another at the turn of the twentieth century, it was first recorded in the late 1920s, when record companies realized the potential African-American market for "race records". The major labels produced the earliest recordings, consisting mostly of one person singing and playing an instrument.
Gospel, blues and jazz were also diversifying during this period, with new subgenres evolving in different cities like Memphis, New York, New Orleans and Chicago. Jazz quickly replaced the blues as American popular music, in the form of big band swing, a kind of dance music from the early 1930s. Swing used large ensembles, and was not generally ...
Boogie-woogie is a genre of blues music that became popular during the late 1920s, developed in African-American communities since the 1870s. [1] It was eventually extended from piano to piano duo and trio, guitar, big band, country and western music, and gospel.