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  2. Jimmy Crack Corn - Wikipedia

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    "Jimmy Crack Corn" or "Blue-Tail Fly" is an American song which first became popular during the rise of blackface minstrelsy in the 1840s through performances by the Virginia Minstrels. It regained currency as a folk song in the 1940s at the beginning of the American folk music revival and has since become a popular children's song.

  3. List of blues standards - Wikipedia

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    B.B. King and Muddy Waters, with the most standards on the charts at five each, [8] used electric blues-ensemble arrangements. Music journalist Richie Unterberger commented on the adaptability of blues: "From its inception, the blues has always responded to developments in popular music as a whole: the use of guitar and piano in American folk ...

  4. Blues scale - Wikipedia

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    At its most basic, a single version of this blues scale is commonly used over all changes (or chords) in a twelve-bar blues progression. [7] Likewise, in contemporary jazz theory, its use is commonly based upon the key rather than the individual chord. [2] Greenblatt defines two blues scales, the major and the minor. The major blues scale is 1 ...

  5. Portal:Blues - Wikipedia

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    Blues legend B.B. King with his guitar, "Lucille" Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.

  6. Talk:Jimmy Crack Corn - Wikipedia

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    A fact from Jimmy Crack Corn appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 September 2005. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that "Blue Tail Fly" or "Jimmy Crack Corn" is a blackface minstrel song dating from the 1840s, and that on the surface, it is a black slave's lament over his master's death; the subtext is that he is glad his master is dead, and ...

  7. Jerry Silverman - Wikipedia

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    Jerry Silverman (born 1931) is an American folksinger, guitar teacher and author of music books. He has had over 200 books published, which have sold in the millions, including folk song collections, anthologies and method books for the guitar, banjo and fiddle.

  8. List of folk songs by Roud number - Wikipedia

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    The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) listed 187,800 records in the growing Folksong database as at October 2012 (which total includes all of the songs in the Broadside database that have 'traditional' origins). [1] The purpose of the index is to give each song a unique identifying number.

  9. English folk music - Wikipedia

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    The folk music of England is a tradition-based music which has existed since the later medieval period. It is often contrasted with courtly, classical and later commercial music. Folk music traditionally was preserved and passed on orally within communities, but print and subsequently audio recordings have since become the primary means of ...

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