FOLK

Instruments
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Types
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SPIRITUALS



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JUBILEE QUARTETS

Decades
Influences
Types
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BLUES

Banjo – Fiddle
Homemade instruments
Early blues was a dance music
1920’s record industry – Women singers
Great migration
Chicago-Detroit-New York
Black men/women plight in blues
12 bar blues

Mississipi Delta. (New style blues) (HC Spier, Jackson MS)
Paramount Race records

Rise of the ethnomusicologist

Commercialization of the blues

Minstrel Shows

Performers
* Mamie Smith (1920) https://youtu.be/qaz4Ziw_CfQ
* Bessie Smith (1929) https://youtu.be/5Bo3f_9hLkQ
* Charley Patton https://youtu.be/2QVA2zEUTIY
* Son House https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_House
* W.C. Handy 1910s. https://youtu.be/oQkLFTcdgH4
* Blind Lemon Jefferson 1926 Race Records https://youtu.be/h3yd-c91ww8
* Leadbelly https://youtu.be/y5tOpyipNJs
* Muddy Waters https://youtu.be/bnsw4sySaxw
* BB King https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King https://youtu.be/LWLAAzOBoBI
* John Lee Hooker https://youtu.be/kWsESwG4WIA