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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: Chicago blues, Classic female blues singers, Country blues, Delta blues, Gospel blues, Memphis blues, Texas blues, Twelve-bar blues, Billie Holiday, Jug band, Ma Rainey, Ethel Waters, Lizzie Miles, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Alberta Hunter, List of country blues musicians, Sippie Wallace, Victoria Spivey, Mamie Smith, Mildred Bailey, Ernest Withers, Maggie Jones, Bessie Tucker, Ida Cox, Trixie Smith, Helen Humes, Virginia Liston, Eva Taylor, Laura Smith, Bertha "Chippie" Hill, Sara Martin, Ida Goodson, Lucille Hegamin, Martha Copeland, Lucille Bogan, List of classic female blues singers, Lil Green, Clara Smith, Viola McCoy, Daisy Martin, Rosa Henderson, Josie Miles, Maxine Sullivan, Blue Lu Barker, Lillian Goodner, Lil Johnson, Georgia White, Esther Bigeou, Mattie Hite, Studebaker John, Katie Crippen, Bessie Brown, Rosetta Howard, Lena Wilson, Ella Johnson, Edna Hicks, Hannah Sylvester, Merline Johnson, List of gospel blues musicians, Ain't That Lovin' You, Baby, Holler Blues. 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 seve...
