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Hands-on Clinic => Music => Topic started by: Evvie72 on Jul 25, 2018
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The time characteristics are
A. duple/quadruple meter.
B. triple/compound meter.
C. irregular meter: 2 + 2 + 3 + 2 + 2.
D. variable; the words determine the rhythm.
Question 2
How has blues music moved beyond its original African-American cultural context?
What will be an ideal response?
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Answer to Question 1
ANS: D. variable; the words determine the rhythm..
Answer to Question 2
Rock and roll began in the 1950s as white covers of black rhythm and blues.
Since the 1960s blues music has moved outside of its original African-American community into mainstream popular music.
Today, blues has found international audiences and artistsfor example, Eric Clapton (England); blues is also heard in Czechoslovakia, Tanzania, and Japan. Nowadays blues is regarded as a universal phenomenon, accessible to all.