Patrice Larroque hypothesizes that early blues singers may have
been influenced by the trochaic rhythm of English. English is
stressed and timed, which means that there is a regular beat to the
language, just like there is a beat in a blues song. This regular
beat falls on important words in the sentence and unimportant ones
do not get stressed. They are "squeezed" between the salient words
to keep the rhythm. The apparent contradiction between the
fundamentally trochaic rhythm of spoken English and the syncopated
ternary rhythm of blues may be resolved as the stressed syllables
of the trochee (a stressed-unstressed sequence) is naturally
lengthened and assumes the role of one strongly and one weakly
stressed syllable in a ternary rhythm. The book suggests
investigating the rhythm of English and the rhythm of blues in
order to show how the linguistic rhythm of a culture can be
reflected in the rhythm of its music.
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