Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 45. Chapters: Slide guitar, Blue note, Blues scale, House concert, Origins of the blues, Fife, Blues dance, Juke joint, Harmonica techniques, Beale Street, Mount Zion Memorial Fund, Peter B. Lowry, Boogie, John the Conqueror, Blues in New Zealand, Geoff Bradford, Race record, House of Blues, Black cat bone, Delta Blues Museum, Traditional blues verses, Blues guitar playing, List of films about blues music, All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues, Bentonia School, Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads, Blues Foundation, Blues Fell This Morning, Inland Empire Blues Society, Blues shouter, The Howlin´ Wolf Story – The Secret History of Rock & Roll, Rules of blues music, Down Home Music Archives. Excerpt: Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the ´´Deep South´´ of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The blues form, ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll is characterized by specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues chord progression is the most common. The blue notes that, for expressive purposes are sung or played flattened or gradually bent (minor 3rd to major 3rd) in relation to the pitch of the major scale, are also an important part of the sound. The blues genre is based on the blues form but possesses other characteristics such as specific lyrics, bass lines and instruments. Blues can be subdivided into several subgenres ranging from country to urban blues that were more or less popular during different periods of the 20th century. Best known are the Delta, Piedmont, Jump and Chicago blues styles. World War II marked the transition from acoustic to electric blues and the progressive opening of blues music to a wider audience, especially white listeners. In the 1960s and 1970s, a hybrid form called blues-rock evolved. The term ´´the blues´´ refers to the ´´blue devils´´, meaning melancholy and sadness; an early use of the term in this sense is found in George Colman´s one-act farce Blue Devils (1798). Though the use of the phrase in African-American music may be older, it has been attested to since 1912, when Hart Wand´s ´´Dallas Blues´´ became the first copyrighted blues composition. In lyrics the phrase is often used to describe a depressed mood. The blues form is a cyclic musical form which repeating progression of chords mirrors the call and response scheme ubiquitous in African and African-American music. During the first decades of the 20th century, blues music was not clearly defined in terms of a particular chord progression. With t

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Inhalt: 1) JAZZ IN TIME 1; 2) LE BLUES PIANO JAZZ; 3) MY FIRST BLUES; 4) CAGE BIRD BLUES; 5) AFTER BEAT BLUES; 6) RIGHT WALKIN BLUES; 7) SIMPLY BLUES; QUITE DECENT BLUES; 9) BEHIND THE FIRST BLUES; 10) FACING BLUES; 11) JUST AFTER THE BEAT; 12) HENRYS BLUES; 13) CHROMATIC BLUES; 14) THREE FOR TWO BLUES;