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1940s: Music Summary
4,888 words, approx. 16 pages The variety of music that was introduced to Americans during the Depression (1929–41) continued to evolve during the 1940s. Blues became electrified and transformed into rhythm and blues (R&B), boogie-woogie, and what became known as...
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Blues Summary
2,617 words, approx. 9 pages Blues music emerged in the early twentieth century in the United States as one of the most distinctive and original of American musical forms. It is an African American creation and, like its distant relative jazz, blues music is one of the great...
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Blues Information
8,447 words, approx. 28 pages
 Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes. It emerged in African-American communities of the United States from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed English and Scots-Irish...



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Blues Quotes
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 This page lacks sufficient introduction or links to Wikipedia . Without such information, it is hard to distinguish this topic from similarly-named topics or to research quotations. You can help Wikiquote by adding it . "The blues ain't nothing but a...




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 The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Blues
05/14/2004: 580 words, approx. 2 pages Jim Beckerman The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 05-14-2004 BLUES Jim Beckerman Date: 05-14-2004, Friday Section: GO! Edtion: All Editions.=.Two Star B. Two Star P. One Star B There's more than one way to learn the blues. There's Eric Clapton's (June...
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 Artforum International
Blue.
11/01/1994: 787 words, approx. 3 pages Blue is not my color. It haunts me, chases me, a ghost running through my dreams--tormenting. The shade of trauma, hands touching me against my will, fragments of horrors; my cries silenced by the color blue. I will not wear blue or choose...
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 The New York Observer
Primary Blues
11/20/2007: 325 words, approx. 1 pages To the Editor:Re “The Real Star of the G.O.P. Primary: Hillary” [Nov. 19]: We’ve just finished with a midterm election and accomplished nothing. Some of the players changed, but the game didn’t. They still accomplish nothing. The candidates’ main concern is getting votes...
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Blue Jackets have Blues' number
3/27/2007: 621 words, approx. 2 pages Different day, same result. The Columbus Blue Jackets again had their way with the St. Louis Blues. Fredrik Modin scored twice and Fredrik Norrena stopped 19 shots in the Blue Jackets' second straight 4-1 victory over St. Louis on Tuesday night."The Blues are a hardworking...



Literary Criticism
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Howard W. Odum
25,374 words, approx. 85 pages
 In the following excerpt, Odum identifies and categorizes the various types of African-American music, dividing the between the spiritual and secular, the latter of which displayed the style and subject matter for early blues songs.
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Gene Bluestein
11,256 words, approx. 38 pages
 In the following essay, Bluestein examines the use of blues and jazz as motifs in the literary works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison.
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Carol Frost
6,949 words, approx. 23 pages
 In the following essay, Frost compares the evolution of the sonnet form with that of the blues song.
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