8-30-23 Rosie (work song) quadruple meter 4 meter call and response axe on 1st beat of each measure call: "Be my woman, gal__ I'll.." response: "be your man" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Blues lyrics: common 3-line verse format 12-bar verse form (A = 4 measures A = 4 B = 4) eg Poor Boy Blues (Lazy Bill Lucas) (A = 2 sung + 2 guitar) (Delta Shuffle da dun da dun) quantrain-refrain - first A replaced with quatrain quatrain: a b c b refrain: A B eg "She Got Me Walkin' - Lazy Bill Lucas parallelism idea restated in different words themes love, relationships "mistreament" hardships poetic devices imagery, metaphors, allusions, symbolism --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- song: She Got Me Walking 1st stanza: A 2+2 A 2+2 B 2+2 abcdAB (lowercase quatrain-refrain form) Jerry Lee Lewis - white, snuck into bars One String Sam - Diddley bow --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- blues -> jazz wwII -> r&b / rock n' roll -> soul 1960s -> blues revival by white college students (civil rights), anti-vietnam surge in folk musc to protest the "man", retired 70s-80s blues players concerts in colleges, British invasion (Beatles rock band from 50s style- modeled Buddy Holly, mop-top haircuts) -> rolling stones modeled after blues, but considered rock, rebels with no uniforms -> eric clapton (cream, the yardbirds) -> jimi hendrix "great" because died young -> stevie ray vaughn -> slash (GnR) ice houses -> honky tonk music before wwII - dancing swing like parents after wwII - marketed to teenagers (disposable income), r&b - marketed to black teenagers rock n roll - marketed to white teenagers