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Bawdy Blues Music Analysis
Generally, many “Bawdy Blues” songs exploit innuendo lyrics because it encompasses socially forbidden subjects such as extremely blatant sexual themes, prostitutions, adultery, lesbianism or social ills. Often times, these obscene songs are frequently banned from radio stations. The only way to have an access to these songs sometimes is to listen to them on a jukebox machine due to its explicit librettos. For example: Lucille Bogan's humorous sexual references song entitled, "Shave 'Em Dry" (1935). In fact, her controversial lines are noted by one music historian as "by far the most explicit blues song preserved at a commercial pre-war recording session”.
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