Essay Assignment: Blues Music
The Blues is the name of the music genre that African Americans created at the end of the 19th century. The music originated from areas notorious for slavery such as Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Alabama and generally the Southern parts of the US. The performance of the blues was usually by solo singers accompanied by guitar or banjo. One iconic blues artist was Robert Johnson (1911-1938). Johnson’s music and that of other blues artists was characterized by raw emotion and the messages therein dwelt on love, hopelessness, injustice, and loneliness. The blues music in terms of the lyrics, the Continue reading...