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Intro

TraditionalAcoustic

Blues came from over a hundred-year-evolving juxtaposition of the musical and cultural traditions of Africa (i.e. African American slaves) and Europe. Traditional Blues represent the structural and cultural genesis of blues, a genre that manifested an array of African-American cultural experience (i.e. spirituals to work songs to field hollers) into a three-phrase lyrical prose aligned within a 12-bar song structure. The 12-bar blues song-form is musically identified by a thematic, three-chord progression which uses the tonic, sub-dominant and dominant chords of the scale and a melodically alternating, bended 'blue note': a lowered third scale degree (or mediant), which alternates with frequent improvisation, between its natural third scale degree. Rooted in the traditions of the Deep South and also known as Country Blues, Traditional Acoustic Blues is primarily minimal in instrumentation (i.e. a vocalist accompanied by an acoustic guitar) and lyric themes tend to focus on hardship and sorrow.

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Parents	Blues	Characterized by a loose narrative lyrical style, use of call-and-response, the blues scale and blue notes, a small set of common chord progressions, and trance-like walking basslines. Originated in African-American communities in the Deep South of the United States in the late 19th century.
Belongs to AVS	avs:SubGenre	A Type of SubGenre.

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