Meaning of BLUES
| Pronunciation: | | blooz
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- [n] a type of folk song that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes
- [n] an informal term for a state of depression; "he had a bad case of the blues"
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| | Synonyms: | | megrims |
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| | See Also: | | African-American music, black music, blue note, boogie, boogie-woogie, depression, folk ballad, folk song | |
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| | Definition: | |  Blues
A disquisition on the art of fishing, from the Nobel Prize-winning novelist and reporter. Written in the form of a dialogue between the Fisherman and the Stranger, who discuss fishing and many unrelated topics in a not-too-carefully organized way, it was originally published in the New Yorker . more details ... |
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| | Related Terms: | | alba, anthem, art song, aubade, ballad, ballade, balladry, ballata, barcarole, blahs, blue devils, bluegrass, blues song, boat song, border ballads, Brautlied, bridal hymn, brindisi, calypso, canso, canticle, canzone, canzonet, canzonetta, carol, cavatina, chanson, chant, chantey, Christmas carol, city blues, country blues, country music, country-and-western music, croon, croon song, dejection, depression, dirge, dismals, ditty, dods, doldrums, dolefuls, dorts, drinking song, dumps, epithalamium, ethnic music, field holler, folk song, folk songs, frumps, gloom, grumps, heavyheartedness, hymeneal, Kunstlied, lay, Liebeslied, lied, lilt, love song, love-lilt, matin, megrims, melancholia, melancholy, minstrel song, minstrelsy, mopes, mulligrubs, mumps, national anthem, old-time country music, pouts, prothalamium, serena, serenade, serenata, song, sulks, sullens, the blues, theme song, torch song, unhappiness, Volkslied, war song, wedding song, western swing |
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