Welcome to the BLUESzology blog!
Ahh...the blues. Welcome to the BLUESzology blog, a mind's eye view on the study and appreciation of the Blues! When in a certain mood, I love listening to this art form which is a musical genre lovingly originated by African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century. It was developed from roots in African musical traditions , African-American work songs , spirituals , and the folk music of white Americans of European heritage. Blues incorporates spirituals , work songs , field hollers , shouts , chants , and rhymed simple narrative ballads . The blues form, ubiquitous in jazz , rhythm and blues and rock and roll , is characterized by the call-and-response pattern, the blues scale and specific chord progressions , of which the twelve-bar blues is the mos...