单词 | bluesman |
释义 | bluesmann. A male performer or composer of the blues, esp. an outstanding or influential one. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > singer of other types of music > [noun] > others mourner1631 catcher1652 monodist1751 pennill singer1784 folk-singer1898 moaner1927 bluesman1930 calypsonian1934 torch singer1934 lieder-singer1936 torcher1940 country singer1953 protest singer1966 ragga1997 1930 N.Y. Times 5 Jan. viii. 2 x/4 Riverside—Ted Lewis, the moaning blues man, is the week's big item in this house. 1953 Zanesville (Ohio) Signal 3 July 4/3 Mez Mezzrow, the Big Blues Man, was arrested in Paris for peddling merrywanna. 1978 L. W. Levine Black Culture & Black Consciousness iv. 234 John Szwed has argued that the bluesman is something of a shaman. 1989 Q Dec. 67/2 The man who often throws songs into the set that only he and some long-dead bluesman are even faintly aware of. 2003 Time Out N.Y. 13 Feb. 117/1 It is Blakeslee's inventive guitar work that cements this 21-year-old bedroom howler's unlikely bluesman status. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1930 |
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