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Blues

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

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Cultural origins
1860s, Deep South, U.S.
Derivative forms
Bluegrass · country · western · jazz · jug band
Stylistic origins
Work songs · spirituals · folk music

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related to Bibliography · 101
Blues → Abbeville Press, Abbeville Publishing Group, African Americans, Allyn, America's Musical Landscape, American Popular Music, Archived, Arkansas Press, August, Bacon, Barlow, Benchmark, Biographies, Black Americans, Blues Fell This Morning, Blues Singers, Bransford, Brigitte, Brown, Cambridge University Press
related to Further reading · 70
Blues → Abbott, African-American Vaudeville, Amistad, BBC, Bluesland, Brown, Charles, Chicago, Chicago Breakdown, Chicago Press, Conversation, Cultural Analysis, Delta, Dixon, Doug Seroff, Early Downhome Blues, Eddison Press, Elijah, Escaping, Giles
related to Origin · 44
Blues → Abyssinian African Muslim, According, Africa, African, African American, African Muslim, Africans, America, American, American South, Arabic, Bantu, Bilal, Caribbean, Charters, Despite, Diouf, European, Gerhard Kubik, God
related to 1980s to the present · 39
Blues → African-American, Alright, Barbara Carr, Bettye LaVette, Blues Breakers, Bobby Rush, Charles Bradley, Clarence Carter, Contemporary African-American, Cream, Denise LaSalle, During, Eric Clapton, Hill's Down Home Blues, In, Jackson, Jackson-based Malaco, John Lee Hooker's, Little Milton's The Blues, Marvin Sease
related to Musical influence · 38
Blues → Batman, Blue, Bob Dylan, Charley Patton, Concerto, Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Early, Fabian Forte's, Fell, Funk, George Gershwin's, Georgia Tom Dorsey, Gershwin's, Give Me One Reason, Golden Gate Quartet, Gospel, Hard Day's Night, Harold Arlen's, In
related to 1960s and 1970s · 31
Blues → African American, African-American, Albert King, Beatles, Big Bill Broonzy, Bland, Blue, Bluesmen, Booker, By, Chicago, Dick Waterman, During, Endless Boogie, Eric Clapton, Europe, Freddie King, However, In, John Lee Hooker
related to Lyrics · 31
Blues → AAB, According, Additionally, Africa, African, African-American, Americas, Burkina Faso, Dallas Blues, Early, European, Guinea, Handy, However, Igbo, John Storm Roberts, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Ghana
related to In popular culture · 21
Blues → Almost, Appalachia, BAFTA, Best Original Score Written, Beyond, Crossroads, During, Grammy, In, Lightnin' Hopkins, Like, Mahal, Motion Picture, Robert Johnson, Songcatcher, Sounder, Taj Mahal, Texas, The, The Blues Tradition
related to 1950s · 20
Blues → African-American, After World War II, Billboard, Can't Be Satisfied, Chicago, Delta, Detroit, Electric, Great Migration, Louis, Memphis, Mississippi, Muddy Waters, PA, Rhythm, Second Great Migration, St, The, This, World War II
related to External links · 20
Blues → Archive, Blues Education Programming, Blues Museum, Center, June, Martin Scorsese, Mississippi, Music, Nationwide, Online Collections, PBSThe Blues FoundationThe Delta, Poetry, PresentationsThe Blue Shoe Project, Smithsonian Institution, Southern Culture, Study, The American Folklife Center's, The Blues, The Music, University

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music style chicago african early also isbn african-american country rock musical form first songs guitar american popular jazz mississippi performers

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BluesCultural origins1860s, Deep South, U.S.1.00infobox
BluesDerivative formsBluegrass1.00infobox
BluesDerivative formscountry1.00infobox
BluesDerivative formswestern1.00infobox
BluesDerivative formsjazz1.00infobox
BluesDerivative formsjug band1.00infobox
BluesDerivative formsragtime1.00infobox
BluesDerivative formsrhythm and blues1.00infobox
BluesDerivative formsrock and roll1.00infobox
BluesDerivative formship-hop1.00infobox
BluesDerivative formscontemporary R&B1.00infobox
BluesDerivative formspsychedelic rock1.00infobox
BluesDerivative formsacid rockdid1.00infobox
BluesStylistic originsWork songs1.00infobox
BluesStylistic originsspirituals1.00infobox
BluesStylistic originsfolk music1.00infobox
Bluesis amusic genre and musical form that originated among African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s0.90text
Bluesis amost common0.90text

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