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Blues 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.
9 paź 2024 · 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. Learn more about blues, including notable musicians.
Classic blues is a genre of music that originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, primarily among African American communities in the southern United States. It is characterized by its use of the blues scale, call-and-response patterns, and often melancholic lyrics about love, loss, and hardship.
The Origins. The late 19th-century experiences of African Americans in the southern United States gave rise to the blues music genre. In its first iteration, it blended elements of work songs, field hollers, and spirituals to create a new style that could convey a variety of human emotions, from joy and optimism to grief and adversity.
26 sty 2024 · With its origins rooted deep in the Southern U.S., blues is a classic musical genre that has come to transcend both time and borders and impact people on a global level. The hardship, sadness, and triumph that it represents are universal to the human experience.
“Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the Deep South of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads.
17 lip 2023 · The blues is arguably the most influential style in the history of contemporary music. It’s language (in particular the ever-present “blues scale”) and form (the “12 bar blues”) has permeated almost every kind of western music, including jazz, rock, pop, Rock ‘n’ roll, R’n’B, hip-hop, country and almost any other style you can ...