Leslie Shill (l_shill@hotmail.com)
Thu, 11 Nov 1999 19:15:12 PST
Bob,
Right on! really, when you think about it, the Blues was there forever, but
it came into it's form in Northern and Northwestern Africa even before the
slave traders started their nefarious practices regarding people as chattels
and the white man signed on in full with those hideous practices. If you
listen to some Arabic music, there is a lot of bluesy phrasing and singing.
If you spend a little time in the world of Flamenco then you can some
similar sorts of hits. The subject matter of the music from these cultural
backdrops have many Bluesy facets. The same applies to many cultures for the
Blues transcends much of what surrounds it.
Leslie Shill
>From: "Bob Davis" <EARTHJUICE@prodigy.net>
>Reply-To: "Bob Davis" <earthjuice@prodigy.net>
>To: "BAO" <tunde@arches.uga.edu>, "Leslie Shill" <l_shill@hotmail.com>
>CC: <nnine@yahoo.com>, <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
>Subject: Re: African info?
>Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 19:47:20 -0500
>
>The Blues started at the precise moment that the slave ships left the coast
>of Africa!
>
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: BAO <tunde@arches.uga.edu>
>To: Leslie Shill <l_shill@hotmail.com>
>Cc: <nnine@yahoo.com>; <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
>Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 5:25 PM
>Subject: Re: African info?
>
>
> > On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Leslie Shill wrote:
> >
> > > I hear what you are saying and on one level it does seem that today's
> > > performing African musicians are seemingly not very influential in
>terms
>of
> > > contemporary music but that some how misses the point. The Blues came
>out of
> > > Africa, North-west Africa to be precise and without the blues, so much
>of
> >
> > how did blues come out of africa? Im interested in hearing.
> >
> > On another note
> > I think a distinction we need to make is if people think that there is a
> > difference between impact of africans and impact of african americans. i
> > think at least within this century there is definitly a difference.
> >
> > N.B. I am Nigerian so dont pull wool over my face.
> >
>
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