MUSIC 2II3 Lecture 12: Music 2ii3 sept 18 lec 2.docx
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3 new forms of music appear during late 1800s (don"t know exact date but we know that it doesn"t appear in 1866 [after slavery ends] b/c the change has to catch up with the people [they have spent their entire lives as slaves it"s hard to mentally adjust to this change]: we need 1st generation of african americans to grow up and create new culture/music b/c they have no recollection of slavery (they were born near end of civil war) Ex) robert johnson: (1911 1938) : best known of the early country blues musicians (he is the paradigm, defined standards for blues guitar (one of the first to do so, he work was pretty brief (not a lot of recording nov 1936 & ) b/c he died very young (age of 27 original member of 27 club, as a young man he"d bring his guitar and he"d play along with blues musicians at clubs.
