Blues

Blues: A type of music that may be notated in eight-, twelve-, and sixteen-measure forms, using one of a select number of melodic scales and rhyme schemes, and sung and/or performed with musical instruments, with the melody as the primary component. Engendered in the late nineteenth century by southern rural African Americans in oral communities, the blues has come to be performed at the present time by American and English musicians of various races and economic classes, in settings ranging...