Crown Heights Affair Dance Lady Dance CD - Import

Music is the language of the soul, expressing the deepest feelings and emotions in a manner that is difficult to ignore. No medium expresses the intensity of emotional upheavals as does music and few people have experienced the turmoil as the African slaves did when they were unceremoniously displaced from their homeland and sold into slavery in a strange land. It isn't surprising then, that some of the most moving musical compositions have come from the hearts and lips of African Americans. One form of music that originated in the South is the "blues", with its characteristic high-pitched notes and a three-line textual stanza of the form AAB, and a 12-measure form. Typically the first two and a half measures of each line are devoted to singing, the last measure and a half, consisting of an instrumental "break" that repeats, answers, or complements the vocal line. Drawing heavily on the rhythmic call and response pattern of African music, the repetitious style in the stanzas and the imitation of vocal idioms by instruments, especially the guitar and harmonica, blues bring to mind the African origins of this soulful music. The credit for popularizing blues goes to W.C. Handy whose 1912 composition 'Memphis Blues' gained immense popularity and set the ball rolling. This CD contains 39 fabulous Blues sung mostly by Ezell and Buster at the folk festival at Fort Valley State College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley, Georgia. This CD contains live recordings of blues from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley, Georgia. All the songs on this CD are presented in the original format and thus carry an immense historic value as well.