Please watch this video. In the comments box, pull out one thing you learned about the history of The Blues that you didn’t know before. Please read the comments that come before and try not to repeat things. If you do want to make the same point please do so in your own words.
Year 8 prep w/c 28th Sept
28 Sunday Sep 2014
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i didn’t know that it expressed the emotion of the African slave workers .
I didn’t know that by singing blues it helped African slave worker s to stop focusing on the pain of being a slave but of happy tunes.
It originated when African-American slaves were working and they used the blues to take their mind off the work.
I didn’t know that the blues was started by slaves.
I didn’t know there was a band called the blues.
Are you sure there is one Jake?
I didn’t know that Europe made blues music so popular I thought it was just America
i didn’t know that soo many genres of music originated from the blues
it’s set in African and American also the thing I liked about it is a story of the history of the blues the bit of history I found out was that the first person to invent an electric guitar was Abram king I think I’m not completely sure that’s what his name is but that is what I can hear from the video.
One thing I learned from this video was that many types of music came from blues including hip hop, soul, funk, gospel, rap, jazz and particularly rock.
The blues originated on Southern plantations in the 19th Century
I think it was/is good that people express themselves through music. I had no idea it was of a African-American origin. However, I think that it was sad that blues only came about because of the pain that they were going through. The fact that the music diverted the thought of pain from their minds may be seen as a positive. This is because what they were going through was awful!
I didn’t know that African-Americans started blues by slaves and I think that it was durable that it had to start by pain. As Ellen said I think that it good to expression your feelings through music so it doesn’t build all up and explode.
I knew that most if the lyrics were sad but now i no why
I didnt know that the blues was started by slaves.
Many European bands fell in love with the American blues and made their own covers of songs. This made blues more popular.
I dident know that the blue history was a sad and slow period.
I didn’trealise that the blues had such a big impact on American culture.
I didn’t know that blues had such an impact on protests and on the rights of black people.
I never knew that blues wrote songs as slaves and all different styles of music influenced by blues
I didn’t know that blues influenced many music styles and that they cam from blues, some of the music styles were: hip hop, soul, Jazz, rock and lots more.
They still continued to play the blues to sort of show and express their feelings and how their life was then. This therefore strengthens the fact that music is simply an expression of human feelings. The blues is named “the blues” because blue is seemed as a gloomy character, which fits their situation back then
I didnt know that blues music was one of the first genres of music to use a electric guitar.
I didn’t know that African workers sung it to themselves to try and make the pain go away and try and insure themselves that everything will be ok
I didn’t originally know that rap and soul music was originally the blues
I didn’t know that blues reaped after world war II
I didn’t know that Ebbey King (I’m not sure if that’s there name) was one of the first people to incorporate electric guitar into blues music.
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I learnt that the europeans took blues and made it their own before World War 2.
Also, I learnt that many of the more modern music genres originated form the blues like rap, hip-hop, jazz and rock and role.
Correction:
I learnt that the Europeans took blues and made it their own before World War II.
Also, I learnt that many of the more modern music genres originated from the blues like rap, hip-hop, jazz and rock ‘n’ roll.
I learnt that the blues was first originated in the Mississippi delta, the first blues song was sung by the slaves in Afrikaans and it was related to slavery.
Revision- From this video, I learnt that the blues music has evolved in the 20th century and it was a major turning point to the American history of music
I didn’t know that blues gave birth to rock and roll
And that blues reaped afterworld war I I
I didnt know that african ameriacans fought for what they thought was right (equal treatment and rights to the african ameriacn people) through blues music.
The african american people also sang away the pain with blues music whilst they were working as slaves.
and i also didnt know that the americans coppied original blues songs and made them bigger and more renowned. 🙂
I didn’t know that know that blues music helped African slaves and that it originated in the Mississippi, also i didn’t know that its European .
I never knew that Blues music affected African slave workers and helped them when they were working as slaves.
i didn’t know they sung blues music to express themselves
I didn’t know that African Slaves listened to blues music to stop them from focussing on the pain.
The Blues music had found rock, Also lenoir was an African American.
blues music connected to slavery.
I didnt know that was blues music was used to help slaves.
Also i didnt know that it originated in missisipi
Slaves expressed the sorrowness of how they felt
I didn’t know that lots of music genres came from blues.
I didn’t know that slaves expressed themselves in blues music!
to didn’t know that this song was related by slaves and that the blues started singing to get there mind off there work
it said the video is acssess dined
Yes you have to do it from home or see me and I’ll log you on
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I have done it from home today- I learnt that the blues were African slave workers singing when they were working and that the Europeans fell in love with music so they made it famous, incorporating new things. such as: instruments.
Great Adam, thank you
I learnt that blues music was to help slaves
I found out it started the blues Mississippi
i didnt know that the blues music was sung by the slaves to express there how they felt
I didn’t know that African slaves used to sing the blues to express there feelings
I never knew that slaves sang the blues to express their feelings. I also didn’t know that their was a European band that made the blues. I found this video interesting because I found out how the blues came to be. It was very interesting and I found out a lot of info.
I never knew that it originated from african american slaves