I like this distinction. Repped
First they came for hiphop, now they're saying the Blues came from Morocco
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I like this distinction. ReppedYou calling people c00ns and you thought Morocco was in West Africa.
ElaborateI hate when you have non musicians trying to define music history.
That’s what ethnomusicologists are for.
THATS LITERALLY MY JOB!
Ain’t nobody in Africa was playing the blues. And don’t mention some damn retard ass scales as to your logic.
It’s a purely American experience from which it came from.
We want to hear from you, an expert, not these uninformed but loud posters.
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Ancient Gnawa music — dubbed Moroccan Blues — finds new audiences in Europe, America
Hundreds of thousands of music fans visit Morocco each year for the Gnawa and World Music Festival. The ancient music, often dubbed Moroccan Blues, is the legacy of enslaved Black Africans in Morocco.www.cbsnews.com
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Blues doesn't come from Gnawa music...the relationship between similar sounds in Gnawa music vs Afram Blues is in Upper West African/Griot Africa/Sahelian that make up the slave stock of Gnawa
The parts of Africa that border near the Afro-Asiatics, have Blues-like sounding music because of similar melismatic vocals, pentatonic scales and lack over complex polyrythyms combined w/ string based instruments
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What they say bout Ethiopian music..
"At Friday's event, Gershon lectured on Ethiopian music with demonstrations by Atanaw, Dagnew, Shenkute, and Lebron. Ethiopian music, Gershon explained, is based on four five-note scales (pentatonic). Tezeta is a scale associated with "nostalgia and longing, the equivalent of blues or soul." Anchihoy is employed mainly in wedding songs, and as a jazz musician Gershon said he finds this scale congenial because of its inherent dissonance.
The song the group played to illustrate the scale bati had a propulsive, danceable beat. Shenkute snapped her fingers to it before reaching for the mike and beginning her vocal, which seemed to dive porpoiselike in and out of the instrumental accompaniment, sinking at times almost to inaudibility, then surging upward to a full-throated wail. The fourth scale, ambassel, also fits comfortably with modern jazz harmonies, Gershon said."
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/10.04/15-mulatu.html
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USA also had a major Muslim/Griot African stock
The parts of Africa that border near the Afro-Asiatics, have Blues-like sounding music because of similar melismatic vocals, pentatonic scales and lack over complex polyrythyms combined w/ string based instruments
0->:25
What they say bout Ethiopian music..
"At Friday's event, Gershon lectured on Ethiopian music with demonstrations by Atanaw, Dagnew, Shenkute, and Lebron. Ethiopian music, Gershon explained, is based on four five-note scales (pentatonic). Tezeta is a scale associated with "nostalgia and longing, the equivalent of blues or soul." Anchihoy is employed mainly in wedding songs, and as a jazz musician Gershon said he finds this scale congenial because of its inherent dissonance.
The song the group played to illustrate the scale bati had a propulsive, danceable beat. Shenkute snapped her fingers to it before reaching for the mike and beginning her vocal, which seemed to dive porpoiselike in and out of the instrumental accompaniment, sinking at times almost to inaudibility, then surging upward to a full-throated wail. The fourth scale, ambassel, also fits comfortably with modern jazz harmonies, Gershon said."
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/10.04/15-mulatu.html
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USA also had a major Muslim/Griot African stock
