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Yonder Come the Blues

February 3, 2010
2:00 pmto4:00 pm
February 10, 2010
2:00 pmto4:00 pm
February 17, 2010
2:00 pmto4:00 pm
February 24, 2010
2:00 pmto4:00 pm
March 3, 2010
2:00 pmto4:00 pm
March 10, 2010
2:00 pmto4:00 pm

Leader: Anton Crouch

Wednesdays 3 February – 10 March (six weeks)
2.00 – 4.00pm
A companion course to our 2009 history of early jazz, ie the subject is considered not from the point of view of post-event oral history but from the point of view of contemporaneous evidence – recordings in particular. As with the jazz course, the focus will be on the early period, up to the mid 1930s.
The classes will cover: the antiquity of the word ‘blues’; form and content; the ‘rural’ vs ‘urbandistinction; antecedents, including work songs, spirituals and sanctified singing; the vaudeville influence; humour in the blues; instrumental blues; Anglo-European blues; feminist interpretation of blues lyrics; the first recordings; great performers, including Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith.
Maximum number: 15
Venue: Upstairs room, Toxteth Hotel

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