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Vaudeville blues singers paved the way for female singers in swing bands beginning in the 1930s and gospel groups in the 1940s. Both the “shouting” and “cool” styles of African American singing go back to slavery times and forward to rhythm and blues, soul music, even rock and country music.
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Classic female blues was an early form of blues music, popular in the 1920s. An amalgam of traditional folk blues and urban theater music, the style is also known as vaudeville blues. Classic blues were performed by female singers accompanied by pianists or small jazz ensembles and were the first blues to be recorded.
Vaudeville Blues. On the African-American T.O.B.A. vaudeville circuit of the 1920s and early '30s, the headlining acts were the blues singers. Even the minstrel shows, with their emphasis on group performance, gave precedence to the blues performer -- more often than not a female firmly rooted in the then-popular classic style of shouting.
Feb 27, 2024 · Vaudeville blues was initially a form of vaudeville music which incorporated heavy blues influence, and is recognized as the first form of blues to be record...
Chronicles an anachronistic performer who was nonetheless forward-thinking and had an unheralded hand in the birth of modern Chicago blues.
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The vaudeville theater was the major public venue for blues in its earliest years, before the advent of radio, blues records, and jukeboxes.
