BLUES UNIVERSITY 101:		Blues U. 102
Delta and Chicago Blues		BluesOMatic

Early Blues Legends | Urban Blues | Classic Chicago Blues | Blues Revival & Rock

Whether you're a blues fan or a novice, Blues University expands your understanding and furthers your enjoyment of blues, jazz's stepbrother, and grandaddy of rock and rap. Blues University 101 is on introductory four-session, multi-media series on the history and culture of Chicago Blues, with lecture, discussion, and audio/videotape presentations followed by live blues related to the session topic. Blues U. is the thinking person's boogie, and the live music after class sessions helps make that boogie move.

Myths, Legends and Early History of Delta/Folk Blues

A social/historical overview of the itinerant tradition, early recording years of Mississippi Delta blues, and its roots in the African oral tradition, including how to tell the two Sonny Boys apart, the Bluebird beat, and what is a mojo and how does it get workin'. using audio/video clips and supplemental texts to explore the roots of Chicago blues.

| Urban Blues | Classic Chicago Blues | Blues Revival & Rock ||Blues U. 102

Blues Women, Urban Blues, and the Great Migration

Traces the path of early recorded blues, whose first stars were bawdy women singers, and the effects of technological advances that changed the sound of blues to a new music more in step with the fast pace of life in northern cities whose population increased rapidly due to an unprecedented wave of black migration from the south. Topics will include the early recorded duos and small combos, the effects of amplification, and blues radio programs, as well as the aesthetic and theoretical split between blues and jazz, including audio recordings and supplemental texts.

Early Blues Legends | Classic Chicago Blues | Blues Revival & Rock ||Blues U. 102

Classic Chicago Blues: 1947-1963

Discusssion of how Chicago became the world's blues capital, with excerpts from the glory days of Chess, VeeJay, and smaller labels, and the effect of Muddy Waters' dominance, Little Walter's innovation, and Willie Dixon's hit instincts on the black music which spawned white rock 'n roll.

Early Blues Legends | Urban Blues | Blues Revival & Rock ||Blues U. 102

The Blues/Rock Link: Revivalism and Resurgence

Explores the ironic resurgence of blues as a partial result of the British Invasion, with recorded examples, demonstrating just how much of "classic rock" is really blues, with examples from Elvis, the Stones, Hendrix, Clapton, The Doors, as well as the infamous Led Zeppelin/Willie Dixon copyright fight.

Early Blues Legends | Urban Blues | Classic Chicago Blues ||Blues U. 102