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The Blues - Online Term Paper

The Blues

If you were choose a genre of music that had the largest effect on the western world, that would most definatly have to be the blues. In this essay I shall asses firstly where the blues came from and secondly the influence of the blues on not only modern day popular music but also the modern world in general.
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 to the blues was African music which has a strong and steady beat using ...

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and roll is said to be the song 'Rocket 88' by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats. This took the traditional 12 bar blues structure and whilst using the same band structure used in many blues tracks it also was one of the first examples of distortion, or fuzz guitar, ever recorded, played by the band's guitarist Willie ...

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Added: 5/22/2011 10:38:41 AM
Submitted By: SebSinister
Category: Music & Musicians
Type: Free Paper
Words: 272
Pages: 1

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