Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated among African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.
Facts
MediumMusic genre and musical form, chiefly vocal and instrumental. 1 Signature TechniqueThe twelve-bar blues chord progression, built on the call-and-response pattern and the blues scale, with flattened blue notes. 1 Place of OriginDeep South of the United States, among African Americans, around the 1860s. 1 Notable ExampleSaint Louis Blues (1914), one of the earliest published blues songs to fix the AAB lyric pattern. 1 Connections
Associated With
Folk Music, Art Forms Blues and Folk Music are closely related roots-music traditions, both emerging from oral, community-based vernacular practice rather than formal composition.
Influenced
Jazz, Movements Blues, the African American vernacular tradition rooted in the Mississippi Delta and the rural South, directly shaped the harmonic language and improvisatory practice of early Jazz.
Sources
1. Blues (Wikipedia)
Wikipedialead section, 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.
Lyrics section, Blues
This pattern can be heard in some of the first published blues songs, such as "Dallas Blues" (1912) and "Saint Louis Blues" (1914).
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