Blues
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Blues is a vocal and instrumental music form which emerged in the African-American community of the United States. Blues evolved from West African spirituals, work songs, shouts and chants and has its earliest stylistic roots in West Africa. The form has been a major influence on later American and Western popular music, finding expression in ragtime, jazz, big bands, rhythm and blues, rock and roll and country music, as well as conventional pop songs and even modern classical music.
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See also
- African American culture
- All Music Guide to the Blues
- Blues Hall of Fame
- Blues in New Zealand
- Blues dance
- Blues guitar playing
- Blues musicians, List of
- Blues standards, List of
- British blues musicians, List of
- Canadian blues
- Mississippi Blues Trail
- List of train songs
- 20th century music
- The Tulsa Sound
- Museum of African American Music
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