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Blues is a musical form and genre that originated in African-American communities in the Deep South of the United States around 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 is the most common.

derivative
Jazz, Rhythm and blues, Rock and roll, Rock music, Bluegrass music
instrument
Bass guitar, Cornet, Double bass, Drum, Guitar, Harmonica, Piano, Saxophone, Trombone, Trumpet, Vocal music
music fusion genre
Blues rock, African blues, Punk blues, Soul blues
music subgenre
Fife and drum blues, Boogie-woogie, Country blues, Delta blues, Electric blues, Jump blues, Piano blues, Classic female blues
stylistic origin
Folk music, Spiritual (music), Work song

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