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From the course by The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The American South: Its Stories, Music, and Art

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The American South: Its Stories, Music, and Art

250 оценки

From small farms to urban neighborhoods, from the region itself to the more distant worlds of the southern diaspora, we discover the stories, music, and art of the American South.

From the lesson

The Blues

Focusing on this distinctive form of music, so intimately defined by sense of place, class, race, and tradition.

The Heart of Oral Tradition2:48

Country Blues10:59

Urban Blues3:41

Saturday Night, Sunday Morning3:30

Where Do the Blues Come From?2:48

The Club Circuit11:25

Professor of the Blues5:56

Meet the Instructors

Dr. William Ferris
Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History; Senior Associate Director of CSAS; Adjunct Professor in the Curriculum in Folklore
Department of History

[MUSIC]

The Blues singers in many ways, the counterpart of the preacher.

On Saturday night the Blues singer performed at house parties, for

dancers and many of those same dancers might come to

church the next morning to hear the preacher.

So there's often a competition between sacred and secular worlds.

The preacher would say to his congregation it's wrong,

to listen to the Blues and dance on Saturday night.

It's not the way of the Lord.

Where as the blues singer would say, we just tell the truth the way it is.

We don't preach one message on Sunday, and then go out on Monday.

And have a drink and chase women.

So there is a long history of division

within the black community between the Church and the Blues.

So when we look at the Blues,

we see a powerful voice that's connected to the Church.

Because every Blues singer was, as a child,

someone who attended Church services including BB King

who began singing gospel music and later changed to the Blues.

>> My mother had started me singing spirituals when I

was about four years old with her, in church.

And after she passed, when I was nine, I continued to sing spirituals, and

we started a little group I guess, when I was about ten or 11, a little quartet.

And we would use the guitar to tune us up.

But we could not go into, the Baptist church where we

were singing at because of the guitar, if that makes any sense to you.

And my uncle was married to a sanctified preacher's sister.

[LAUGH] And

they had an old Southern custom that the adults would have dinner first,

and then the kids would eat.

So, this preacher had a custom of laying his guitar on the bed while they go,

while they go and eat.

And soon as they would close the kitchen door right out the bed I would go.

So finally one day he caught me

but he didn't do what I thought he was going to do.

Instead of balling me out about he showed me three chords.

One of them was [SOUND] C chord.

The other one

[MUSIC],

an F chord.

And then,

[MUSIC],.

a G chord.

So, that was 38 years ago.

I still playing those three chords.

[LAUGH]

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