Blues
Music genre
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... Wikipedia
Parent genre: Folk music
Cultural origins: 1860s, Deep South, U.S
Derivative forms: Bluegrass; country; jazz; jug band; ragtime; rhythm and blues; rock and roll
Stylistic origins: Work songs; Spirituals; folk music;
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Rural music that captured the suffering, anguish-and hopes-of 300 years of slavery and tenant farming, the blues was typically played by roaming solo musicians ...