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Date
Written by 1914, recorded and released in 1925
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Important people
- Written by W.C. Handy
- Recorded by Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong
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Style/ genre/ category
Blues
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Form
Verse-refrain form (AABA)
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blue notes
bent or "flattened" pitches
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Pitch
Refers to the highness or lowness of a specific sound
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Call and response
back-and-forth alternation between musicians, like a conversation
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Race music
Music by African Americans and assumed by record companies to be for African Americans
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Classic blues
- Associated with Urban Areas (cities)
- Mamie Smith, first hit blues singer
- "Crazy blues" 1920
- Influence on Tin Pan Alley
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College educated, middle-class professional songwriter
After hearing Southern Black Blues musicians, began writing, publishing blues songs.
Blended country blues and TPA style
W.C. Handy (1873-58)
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Classic blues written by W.C. Handy, 1914
Our recording: singer Bessie Smith and cornetist Louis Armstrong, 1925
Features call and response between voice and cornet
St. Louis Blues info
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