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The Roots Of Blues Music

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The Roots of Blues Music

     Blues is a very important type of music.  Most music that you hear today
has some form of blues in it.  If it wasn't for the blues there wouldn't be any
rock and roll, country, rap, pop, or jazz .  Blues is also important for African
American culture.  African Americans were also the people who started the blues.
     The Blues started in the late 1800's in levee camps or plantations in
places like Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas were many African Americans lived.
The blues of that time was called country blues.  It was a mixture of African
music, field hollers, work songs, religious music, and ragtime.
     The main influence of blues music was African music which has a strong
and steady beat  using drums or other instruments. Its beat and singing showed
in the blues.
     Work songs and field hollers were an influence on blues.  They were mostly
made up as the  musicians were singing.  They were a mixture of story telling
and talking with a definite call and response.
     Religious music was very important in forming blues music. Because most
blacks went to Christian churches from an early age and were exposed to
Christian hymns.
     Ragtime was an influence that came later and is a faster blues played with
the piano and someone sing...

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