Do you really know the blues?

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Test Your Blues Knowledge

Are you a true blues aficionado? Put your knowledge to the test with our engaging quiz about the history and essence of blues music. Discover if you know the origins, key artists, and defining characteristics of this richly emotional genre.

Questions about blues history
Identify iconic blues songs and artists
Explore the cultural significance of the blues

15 Questions4 MinutesCreated by StrummingSound14

Why is not it as famous as Pop and Funk?

Because it's a bad musical style

Because it's not very modern

For having few known singers

Because people have bad taste

What sequence do you all know as blues?

First grade, fourth grade/First grade, fifth grade/Fourth grade, first grade

Fourth grade, first grade/First grade, fifth grade/First grade, fourth grade

Fourth grade, first grade/Fifth grade, first grade/First grade, fourth grade

First grade, fourth grade/Fourth grade, first grade/First grade, fifth grade

How did it come about?

By improvisation, swing and non-linear rhythms

It emerged in the favelas of Brazil as a form of protest

For the preservation of the formal structure of music, performed in a sensitive and melodic way, usually marked by a large audience

When black slaves from the southern United States made songs of cotton plantations and other songs related to their religious faith.

What did slaves do when they created the blues?

Banana Plantation

They were enslaved

Cotton Planting

Abobóra Plantation

How can we define the blues?

Values system involving spectacle in the palcp, visual fashion and empathy among the youth audience

A very characteristic North American black music style developed by artist like James Brown and his musicians

Mix of rhythms that form their essence. Among them the frevo, Afro-Brazilian rhythms and reggae

A melancholy that mixes resignation and hope, and also songs of lost loves always with a strong sensual charge that is typical of the black race.

When did the blues become known?

After the Civil War ended

In 1960 as the "Golden Age"

From the 20th century

In 1995, when it became a world fever

Who was the first popular artist of the genre?

Michael Jackson

Adamovich

Charley Patton

Cyndi Lauper

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