How the Blues Began
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About
“How the Blues Began” is a 4-lesson course at Teen level, created with soclever, a personal AI teacher. Each lesson takes a few minutes and ends with a check-in question; finish the curriculum and you can take a certificate test to earn a diploma. Try the first lesson without an account — or make your own course on any topic. Shared by @meirrosenschein.
What you'll learn
- African Roots and Slavery. Slavery forced millions of Africans to America, tearing them from their homes and cultures.
Questions this course answers
How did work songs help enslaved people?
Work songs synchronized labor in the fields and made unbearable work bearable by giving it a pulse and a voice.
What are blue notes?
Blue notes are notes sung slightly lower than standard pitch to express sadness or pain.
Where did the blend of traditions that formed the blues especially happen?
That blend happened especially in the Deep South in the lived experience of enslaved and then freed Black people.
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