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After experiencing a financial fallout in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the global electronic music industry is enjoying a revival after the return of live performances. At the end of 2023, the industry’s value topped $11.8 billion, with EDM musicians being among the most in-demand creators. This guide is dedicated to the history of ...
Mar 3, 2024 · The history of the blues is a story about American slavery, resistance, overcoming, and the birth of Western popular music. The catastrophic legacy of American Slavery gave rise to the blues, a musical style born in the African-American communities of the southern United States. The blues evolved over generations to include African musical ...
Blues is a music genre [3] and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. [2] Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues ...
Uncovering the hidden histories of popular music in Northern Ireland’s capital city forms the heart of Noel McLaughlin and Joanna Braniff’s recent book How Belfast Got the Blues: A Cultural History of Popular Music in the 1960s. A book on this topic, taking into account Belfast’s peripheral geographical location –in the far north of ...
Jul 1, 2001 · I was struck by two comments made in issue 3 of the JMI.The first by the editor Toner Quinn — ‘I hope it will be recognised that what we require is a great intellectual movement, a rethinking and reinvigorating of Ireland’s condition that summons up the energy, passion and affection of all our young intellects and artists’[1]; and the second by Benjamin Dwyer —‘ … there is an ...
Feb 21, 2024 · 1920s: The Blues Takes Flight. The years from 1920 to 1930 were critical in the history of blues music. The boom of the recording industry added fuel to the spread of blues music, allowing artists to distribute their music further than ever. Record labels started to actively record African-American artists as they led the way in popular new ...
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The Blues. A type of African-American musical art that was first developed in the Mississippi Delta region at the end of the nineteenth century, the blues, like many musical expressions, is difficult to define. Some people think of the blues as an emotion; others regard it primarily as a musical genre characterized by a special blues scale ...
