Blues

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A paper on the evolution of the blues in its present form, with the history of the music juxtaposed with the social and cultural history of the United States. It begins by looking at the humble start of blues music and then discusses development of the instruments. Famous singers are then introduced, and the paper concludes with an explanation of how blues is representative of the struggles of African Americans.

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"Born in the exuberantly warm climes of their African homeland, carried with the first waves of the slaved people in their head and forged in the pain of their suffering as an escape from the tyranny of their bonded life, the blues have emerged as the collective consciousness of an entire people through the centuries. The blues, essentially the original rhythm and beat of the African musical roots combining with the field calls and ballads of their workaday lives and the church music taught to them by their evangelically inclined new masters, evolved into a unique art form in its own right."

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