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The Blues

The blues is a 12-bar form, a flat-third-and-flat-seventh harmonic palette, and a vocal idiom — and also a cultural inheritance carried by African Americans...

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The blues is a 12-bar form, a flat-third-and-flat-seventh harmonic palette, and a vocal idiom — and also a cultural inheritance carried by African Americans from the post-Reconstruction South into 20th-century American music. Key sections include: The Blues.; Opening What the blues is.; Chapter I Roots.; Chapter II The 12-bar form.; Chapter III Country blues.; Chapter IV Robert Johnson.; Chapter V Texas, Piedmont, the regional styles.; Chapter VI Classic blues — the women.; Chapter VII The Great Migration and electrification.; Chapter VIII Chicago blues..

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Slide outline
  1. 01The Blues.
  2. 02Opening What the blues is.
  3. 03Chapter I Roots.
  4. 04Chapter II The 12-bar form.
  5. 05Chapter III Country blues.
  6. 06Chapter IV Robert Johnson.
  7. 07Chapter V Texas, Piedmont, the regional styles.
  8. 08Chapter VI Classic blues — the women.
  9. 09Chapter VII The Great Migration and electrification.
  10. 10Chapter VIII Chicago blues.
  11. 11Chapter IX Memphis and rhythm-and-blues.
  12. 12Chapter X The British blues invasion.
  13. 13Chapter XI The folk-blues rediscovery.
  14. 14Chapter XII Soul and the post-blues turn.
  15. 15Chapter XIII Modern blues.
  16. 16Chapter XIV The instruments.
  17. 17Chapter XV What the blues is about.
  18. 18Chapter XVI Race and appropriation.
  19. 19Chapter XVII The essential discography.
  20. 20Chapter XVIII Films and books.
  21. 21Chapter XIX Visiting the blues.
  22. 22Chapter XX If you want to play.
  23. 23Chapter XXI The blues now.
  24. 24Chapter XXII Open questions.
  25. 25Chapter XXIII Twenty-five works.
  26. 26Chapter XXIV Watch & listen.
  27. 27Chapter XXV If you want to learn the music.
  28. 28Chapter XXVI Why the blues matters.
  29. 29Chapter XXVII The next decade.
  30. 30The end of the deck.
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Category
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Updated
2026-05-15
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