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Bookmark or Share- What Is the History of the Blues? - TheCollectorThe blues tradition wields a powerful influence over Western popular music. Rhythm and Blues (R&B) icons, Rock and Roll pioneers, and the greats of American Soul, from Nina Simone to Otis Reading are all in debt to the musical lineage of the blues.
- Blues | Definition, Artists, History, Characteristics, Types ...Blues, secular folk music created by African Americans in the early 20th century, originally in the South. The simple but expressive forms of the blues became by the 1960s one of the most important influences on the development of popular music.
- Blues - WikipediaBlues is a music genre [3] and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. [2] Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.
- Blues - African American, Delta, Jazz | BritannicaBlues 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.
- Origins of the blues - WikipediaThe belief that blues is historically derived from the West African music including from Mali is reflected in Martin Scorsese’s often quoted characterization of Ali Farka Touré’s tradition as constituting "the DNA of the blues".
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