Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "A blues fiddle\" is a generic term for bowed, stringed instruments played on the arm or shoulder that are used to play blues music. Since no blues artists played violas, the term is synonymous with violin, and blues players referred to their instruments as \"fiddle\" and \"violin\".While unequivocally an African-American creation, with the rising popularity of the blues, violinists in the Anglo-American dance fiddling traditions and white country fiddlers, adopted stylistic elements and added songs from the blues to their repertoire.Blues violin features most prominently in rural blues, string-band, jug band and jazz. It won this attention because, \"The violin is by nature a lead instrument that can replicate vocal expressions through the use of vibrato and sliding notes.\""@en }
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- Blues_fiddle abstract "A blues fiddle\" is a generic term for bowed, stringed instruments played on the arm or shoulder that are used to play blues music. Since no blues artists played violas, the term is synonymous with violin, and blues players referred to their instruments as \"fiddle\" and \"violin\".While unequivocally an African-American creation, with the rising popularity of the blues, violinists in the Anglo-American dance fiddling traditions and white country fiddlers, adopted stylistic elements and added songs from the blues to their repertoire.Blues violin features most prominently in rural blues, string-band, jug band and jazz. It won this attention because, \"The violin is by nature a lead instrument that can replicate vocal expressions through the use of vibrato and sliding notes.\"".