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5 days ago · 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.
- History and Notable Musicians
It was influenced by work songs and field hollers, minstrel...
- Microtonal
microtonal music, music using tones in intervals that differ...
- Mississippi Delta Blues
Mississippi Delta blues, regional style of early...
- British Blues
British blues was an early to mid-1960s musical movement...
- Slide
The term slide guitar is most strongly associated with blues...
- Syncopation
syncopation, in music, the displacement of regular accents...
- History and Notable Musicians
5 days ago · 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.
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5 days ago · Reggae, style of popular music that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s and quickly emerged as the country’s dominant music. By the 1970s it had become an international style that was particularly popular in Britain, the United States, and Africa.
2 days ago · Sandro Campardo/AP/Keystone. LONDON — John Mayall, the British blues musician whose influential band the Bluesbreakers was a training ground for Eric Clapton, Mick Fleetwood and many other superstars, has died. He was 90. A statement on Mayall's Instagram page announced his death Tuesday, saying the musician died Monday at his home in California.
3 days ago · Jazz and rock shared the same DNA, but as modern jazz developed into a more cerebral listening music, the blues and gospel legacy of stomping, hand-clapping, pleasure-centered music and dance fell to Ray Charles, Muddy Waters, B. B. King, Etta James, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, and other artists in the R&B (rhythm-and-blues) and ...
4 days ago · t. e. African-American music is a broad term covering a diverse range of musical genres largely developed by African Americans and their culture. Its origins are in musical forms that developed as a result of the enslavement of African Americans prior to the American Civil War.
