Tremendous series! Sincerest congratulations for your research, writing, and editing! Thank you so much for enriching our historical knowledge on the wonderful world of blues!
I encourage anyone who is interested in this subject to listen to The Child Ballads, a collection of English and Scottish folk songs and their American variants
Thanks for putting this together. It’s very very thorough. I just finished part one and I already know I will love the other nine videos. I’ve been looking for a concise detailed history of the early blues for a little while now and this definitely meets that description. You also take it back to the 15th century so viewers can get the entire sweep of the blues’ history from the very beginning. Nice work man. Really looking forward to watching the rest.
If you don't know that the blues arose from a culture clash of classical and Scottish dirge (by the Jacobite soldiers, families and friends that were musicians) then you know nothing! The original music would've been a classical blues style!!!
Please update the language in the historical references so that it sounds less white supremacist. Example: Europeans enslaved Africans and forced them to migrate to the americas instead of “slaves were brought over” Forced labor camps instead of “seasoning camps” (which glosses over the oppression). Based on what we know of the oppression slaves were forced to endure, we need to make space and bear witness to the atrocities committed against Black people in the land we now inhabit. This is a critical part of reckoning with the past. May we learn more and do better. May we create a better and more just world together.
Hello. Thanks for your input. I guess there is an "appropriate" way to describe the atrocities of this time, but I'm not a native speaker so I missed some of them.
I would argue that Europeans "enslaved Africans" isn't historical accurate because it implies that the Europeans made them slave and disregarded that for the majority of the time, they were already slaves in Africa.
@@arnitaxavier9446 European enslavement of Africans involved far more brutality and dehumanization than what Africans were doing before they arrived. White Supremacy has shown up in how I was educated in school where I grew up. White Supremacy is very sneaky. I am learning to keep my eyes open & notice justifications for the brutality of slavery & inequality. If I don’t question what I was raised to believe, then I might support White Supremacist messages without intending to & without realizing it.
@@funkpunkmusic Europeans developed many excuses for slavery in books (written by my ancestors). So it does not surprise me that you are encountering these justifications for oppression. I have been working to unlearn the White Supremacy that I was taught as a child, and this will be a lifelong process for me. The good news for us is that - what is learned can be unlearned.
I watched Adam Neely's last video. Agree with him or not, his videos are always fascinating. He said something about the blues that caught my attention. He said he couldn't get into it now but the blues comes from native Americans as well as other places. I didn't know that. So that's why I'm hear. It has to be a fascinating story.
Πολύ ενδιαφέρουσα η σειρά κ μπράβο για την ενδελεχή μελέτη κ παρουσίαση. Καταπιάστηκα κ γω λίγο με την ιστορία του είδους κ έχω να προτείνω το εξής βιβλίο (αν δεν το ξέρεις ήδη): Leroi Jones: Blues People - Negro Music in White America. Αν θες να μοιραστείς κανένα τίτλο βιβλίου ή δοκυμαντέρ ή μουσική, θα το εκτιμήσω.
All those field hollars and work songs, they sound as though they could've come right off my guitar. Play the same notes on electric guitar and that's a pretty typical blues lick. I play stuff like that all the time.
When I was a child and growing up south of Oakland, California, African Americans would ride down to my town (almost all white) on the bus and busk on the street for tips, usually performing the 'Hambone', or rhythmic slapping on leather vests with patches on their thighs. One verse I recall had to do with a diamond ring. It went as follows: "Hambone, Hambone, have you heard, Papa's gonna' buy me a mocking bird. If that mocking bird don't sing, Papa's gonna' buy me a diamond ring. If that diamond ring don't shine, Papa's gonna' take me to the five and dime. Hambone! Hambone!" It was great to hear the music accompanied by the rhythmic clapping. I can still recall it decades later.
Why was Columbus looking for “spice”? After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, the victorious Turks interrupted the trade routes which caused the price of pepper to skyrocket. Did they like the taste of black pepper THAT much? They needed it. Since they had to use lots of salt to preserve their meat, they needed pepper to make it edible… ~>From the Middle Ages on, pepper was the most important spice traded between Europe and the Far East. That's because no other spice except pepper made heavily salted meat edible, and in Europe no form of preservation other than salting was generally employed. Thus, it was salt and pepper that stood between meat-eating Europeans and starvation. After the fall of the Byzantine capital of Constantinople in 1453, the victorious Turks began disrupting the overland trade routes east from the Mediterranean. This caused pepper to be in short supply and prices to climb significantly. As a result of this "economic jolt,; European explorers (and entrepreneurs) - looking for a second right answer - sailed west and south in search of alternative passages to the Orient. As historian Henry Hobson expressed it, "The Americas were discovered as a by-product in the search for pepper.”
Nice work! Work songs were also a part of Europeans as well. From sea shanties, to railroads, etc. Also, melisma is part of Irish and other West European music.
@@itsbeyondme5560 The roots of Blues are spirituals, work songs, and folk music of both European and African. As already noted the elements of those are all found in European American music and forms particularity in poor white culture. These elements coming together with other African elements are what has been created by African Americans as Blues along with European instrumentation. The reason no African music ever created anything like the Blues is because it was only possible in the context of both White and African American music in the New World. The Blues are not African let alone ALL African. It is African American with elements from both European and African roots.
![The History and Evolution of the Blues p.2 [18th-19th century]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/j7z4pRaZNIM/mqdefault.jpg)
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![The History and Evolution of the Blues p.5 [Proto-Blues]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_liRv81g7xw/mqdefault.jpg)
Tremendous series! Sincerest congratulations for your research, writing, and editing! Thank you so much for enriching our historical knowledge on the wonderful world of blues!
I encourage anyone who is interested in this subject to listen to The Child Ballads, a collection of English and Scottish folk songs and their American variants
Thanks for putting this together. It’s very very thorough. I just finished part one and I already know I will love the other nine videos. I’ve been looking for a concise detailed history of the early blues for a little while now and this definitely meets that description. You also take it back to the 15th century so viewers can get the entire sweep of the blues’ history from the very beginning. Nice work man. Really looking forward to watching the rest.
If you don't know that the blues arose from a culture clash of classical and Scottish dirge (by the Jacobite soldiers, families and friends that were musicians) then you know nothing! The original music would've been a classical blues style!!!
Awesome series! Deserves more views imo.
Thanks Nik!
Feel free to share the video! :)
Agreed
I’ve genuinely enjoyed this video! Thanks for excellent, well researched content; also for citing your sources.
thank you for the yoruba music
Please update the language in the historical references so that it sounds less white supremacist.
Example: Europeans enslaved Africans and forced them to migrate to the americas instead of “slaves were brought over”
Forced labor camps instead of “seasoning camps” (which glosses over the oppression).
Based on what we know of the oppression slaves were forced to endure, we need to make space and bear witness to the atrocities committed against Black people in the land we now inhabit. This is a critical part of reckoning with the past. May we learn more and do better. May we create a better and more just world together.
Hello. Thanks for your input. I guess there is an "appropriate" way to describe the atrocities of this time, but I'm not a native speaker so I missed some of them.
What about my people....
I would argue that Europeans "enslaved Africans" isn't historical accurate because it implies that the Europeans made them slave and disregarded that for the majority of the time, they were already slaves in Africa.
@@arnitaxavier9446 European enslavement of Africans involved far more brutality and dehumanization than what Africans were doing before they arrived. White Supremacy has shown up in how I was educated in school where I grew up.
White Supremacy is very sneaky. I am learning to keep my eyes open & notice justifications for the brutality of slavery & inequality. If I don’t question what I was raised to believe, then I might support White Supremacist messages without intending to & without realizing it.
@@funkpunkmusic Europeans developed many excuses for slavery in books (written by my ancestors). So it does not surprise me that you are encountering these justifications for oppression. I have been working to unlearn the White Supremacy that I was taught as a child, and this will be a lifelong process for me. The good news for us is that - what is learned can be unlearned.
They call it the blues because we were so oppressed as a people we were sad
Blues music has been traced back to the 1890s and not to the 1880s.
Great stuff buddy, many thanks👏
I watched Adam Neely's last video. Agree with him or not, his videos are always fascinating. He said something about the blues that caught my attention. He said he couldn't get into it now but the blues comes from native Americans as well as other places. I didn't know that. So that's why I'm hear. It has to be a fascinating story.
I can hear the apala... Amazing stuff
Wait why is this narrated by that fitness guy on RUclips?
Amazing video!!!! amazing documentary!!! thanks
Ενδιαφέρον το βίντεο και αυτήν την φορά.
Πολύ ενδιαφέρουσα η σειρά κ μπράβο για την ενδελεχή μελέτη κ παρουσίαση.
Καταπιάστηκα κ γω λίγο με την ιστορία του είδους κ έχω να προτείνω το εξής βιβλίο (αν δεν το ξέρεις ήδη):
Leroi Jones: Blues People - Negro Music in White America.
Αν θες να μοιραστείς κανένα τίτλο βιβλίου ή δοκυμαντέρ ή μουσική, θα το εκτιμήσω.
Ευχαριστώ πολύ για την πρόταση. Για τη σχετική βιβλιογραφία ρίξε μια ματιά στο link με τις πηγές στην περιγραφή του βίντεο.
All those field hollars and work songs, they sound as though they could've come right off my guitar. Play the same notes on electric guitar and that's a pretty typical blues lick. I play stuff like that all the time.
When I was a child and growing up south of Oakland, California, African Americans would ride down to my town (almost all white) on the bus and busk on the street for tips, usually performing the 'Hambone', or rhythmic slapping on leather vests with patches on their thighs. One verse I recall had to do with a diamond ring. It went as follows: "Hambone, Hambone, have you heard, Papa's gonna' buy me a mocking bird. If that mocking bird don't sing, Papa's gonna' buy me a diamond ring. If that diamond ring don't shine, Papa's gonna' take me to the five and dime. Hambone! Hambone!" It was great to hear the music accompanied by the rhythmic clapping. I can still recall it decades later.
Why was Columbus looking for “spice”?
After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, the victorious Turks interrupted the trade routes which caused the price of pepper to skyrocket.
Did they like the taste of black pepper THAT much?
They needed it. Since they had to use lots of salt to preserve their meat, they needed pepper to make it edible…
~>From the Middle Ages on, pepper was the most important spice traded between Europe and the Far
East.
That's because no other spice except pepper made heavily salted meat edible, and in Europe no form of preservation other than salting was generally employed.
Thus, it was salt and pepper that stood between meat-eating Europeans and starvation.
After the fall of the Byzantine capital of Constantinople in 1453, the victorious Turks began disrupting the overland trade routes east from the Mediterranean.
This caused pepper to be
in short supply and prices to climb significantly.
As a result of this "economic jolt,; European explorers (and entrepreneurs) - looking for a second right answer - sailed west and south in search of alternative passages to the Orient.
As historian Henry Hobson expressed it, "The Americas were discovered as a by-product in the search for pepper.”
Love this video
Thank you for this..very informative and entertaining 💚🌎☮️
Are you Greek by any chance? Your accent seems very Greek to me
Yeap :)
@@funkpunkmusic το ήξερα! Πολλά μπράβο για το βίντεο , η ποιότητα είναι άψογη!
Ευχαριστώ Πέτρο!
Insanely helpful series, thank you🔥🔥🔥
Excellent video! Can't wait to watch the rest. Great job!
Thanks for such a lovely explanation, much appreciated
Are you Greek?
Yeap!
Wonderful !
Thank you for this video
i like your voice🥰
'σωραίος! :)
good piece
Merci
Nice work! Work songs were also a part of Europeans as well. From sea shanties, to railroads, etc. Also, melisma is part of Irish and other West European music.
Nope.
@@itsbeyondme5560 Uhm! Yep!!
@@veridicusmaximus6010 nope. This is all african. No western influences is not shown in the blues. Totally african
@@itsbeyondme5560 The roots of Blues are spirituals, work songs, and folk music of both European and African. As already noted the elements of those are all found in European American music and forms particularity in poor white culture. These elements coming together with other African elements are what has been created by African Americans as Blues along with European instrumentation. The reason no African music ever created anything like the Blues is because it was only possible in the context of both White and African American music in the New World. The Blues are not African let alone ALL African. It is African American with elements from both European and African roots.
@@veridicusmaximus6010 just to play devil’s advocate ruclips.net/video/0qmO8XouJ2U/видео.html
Listen to Mali music
Did you just gloss over the bambara slaves brought from Mali? It says a lot, being that the blues was born there as opposed to the US.
You should share some, I would love to hear it!
@@soulfuzz368what is the final song
@@omalone1169 Willie Walker - Dupree Blues (1930)
αυτη η προφορα τα σπαει ε