Blues

Blues Blues is a form of African American music that emerged around the dawn of the twentieth century. Like its contemporary forms—ragtime-, jazz-, and Pentecostal-influenced gospel music—blues (and the twelve-bar blues form) has influenced and helped to define American popular music since the early 1900s. Significantly, each of these genres also developed in the South, where the largest percentage of African Americans lived at the time. Blues emerged in the deep South—probably in East Texas…