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Category Archives: – Blues history
– Blues and Strange Fruit
Bootlegging, women, sex and violence were a steady ingredient of the life of the black in the Southern states. When you read the biographies of blues artists, you will find those components in varying degrees again and again in most of their careers. Next to blues singing which very frequently dealt with sex (more or […]
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– Commercial fever, clumsiness and sentimentality
While the twenties were a period of economic boom, it was also a period of nervousness for the record companies. Faced with the competition of the raging popular radio, it had to find ways to survive and went on the look for stars to record, a.o. for country blues talents in the South. Some record […]
– Blues was a woman’s business
In my previous post I stated that blues helped to save the record industry. I should be more precise: women blues vocalist helped to save the record industry. In its kick off phase blues was mainly a woman’s business. Most of the literature focuses on the role that classic blues has played in obtaining public […]
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– Blues helped to save the record industry
The title is provocative, yet there are arguments that the promotion and distribution of blues was part of the marketing strategy that helped the record industry to survive in the twenties. The twenties were a decade of rapid socio-technological change and, apart from a short economic recession in the beginning of the twenties, and a […]
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– Monty Python’s Flying Circus : I can’t get no satisfaction
What is the relationship between Monty Python’s Flying Circus and the Stones’ top record : Satisfaction? To find out, read more in the following text. How is this also related to the Blues Revival ? Another reason to read more of what is to come. To explain it I need to go back to the […]
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