The Blues
Picture being in a jazz club, sitting in the soft cushion booths, waiting for the band to come to the stage. Finally the spotlight shines on the artist on stage. It is a living legend, Robert Johnson. He starts playing and singing the blues and you picture and feel everything he is saying, feeling his pain and experiences. The Blues is emotional, rhythmic, storytelling music that shows the artists feelings and personal experiences, which is shown in the novel Reservation Blues, which includes characters such as blues great Robert Johnson.
It becomes increasingly difficult through time to link blues music and Native Americans. This is because the musical genre of blues has been stereotyped to Afro-Americans. It emerged in African-American communities of the United States from spirituals, praise songs, field hollers, rhymed Scots-Irish narrative ballads, shouts, and chants. The blues influenced later American and Western popular music, as it became......
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