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“We’re the birthplace of blues, country and rock and roll music, and the guitar is at the core of all of it”: The America at the Crossroads exhibit charts the guitar’s ...
African-American sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta and other parts of the South adopted the instrument and evolved blues music from spirituals and field hollers. Charley Patton, Robert ...
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Musical journeys: Jazz and blues music
They are both very popular styles of music. Blues music can be played on instruments like the guitar, piano and harmonica. Singing is very important in blues music too. The words in blues songs ...
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The elements of music in the blues
The structure of blues music is still heard today in lots of different genres of music. Call and response close call and responseWhere one melody is answered by another. is a feature of work songs ...