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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › BluesBlues - Wikipedia

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   Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.

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2. www.britannica.com › art › blues-musicBlues - African American, Delta, Jazz | Britannica

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   Blues developed in the southern United States after the American Civil War (1861–65). It was influenced by work songs and field hollers, minstrel show music, ragtime, church music, and the folk and popular music of the white population.

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3. www.musicnotes.com › blog › learning-the-richWhere It All Began: Learning the Rich History of Blues

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   Feb 21, 2024 · Understanding Blues Music History: The Early Days. Like many forms of art, blues music started as a form of expression for people who were often left out of mainstream music. The originators of blues were the workers in southern fields who faced life’s hardships and newly freed slaves who used music to heal from the traumas of modern life.

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4. balladofamerica.org › bluesBlues: About the Genre - Ballad of America

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   Overview. Blues music encompasses a variety of musical styles and has included many different sounds, feelings, moods, and meanings over the years. Musical characteristics of the blues are essential components in other forms of American music, including country, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, rock & roll, funk, soul, and hip hop.

5. balladofamerica.org › birth-of-the-bluesBirth of the Blues - Ballad of America

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   by Matthew Sabatella. Contents. Overview. Musical Roots. The Development of Blues in the Postwar South. Blues as Popular Music in the 1910s. Playlists. Further Reading. This article focuses on the early development of blues and its emergence as popular music in the 1910s.

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   Where did Blues come from?

   • Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.

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   What is blues music?

   • The blues form is a cyclic musical form in which a repeating progression of chords mirrors the call and response scheme commonly found in African and African-American music. During the first decades of the 20th century blues music was not clearly defined in terms of a particular chord progression.

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   How did blues music start?

   • Like many forms of art, blues music started as a form of expression for people who were often left out of mainstream music. The originators of blues were the workers in southern fields who faced life’s hardships and newly freed slaves who used music to heal from the traumas of modern life.

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   What influenced blues music?

   • It was influenced by work songs and field hollers, minstrel show music, ragtime, church music, and the folk and popular music of the white population. Blues derived from and was largely played by Southern Black men, most of whom came from the milieu of agricultural workers. The earliest references to blues date back to the 1890s and early 1900s.

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