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Blues

By: David Cosper
In: The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture
Edited by: Janet Sturman
Subject:Sociology of Culture, Social & Cultural Anthropology, Popular Music
Keywords:blues

Over the past 100 years, blues has had a wide range of meanings. The term has been used to refer to an emotional affect, a musical style, a harmonic form, a poetic form, an improvisational language, and a form of oral history. As a musical form, the blues has been described as a ...

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  Cosper, D. (2019). Blues. In J. Sturman (Ed.), The SAGE international encyclopedia of music and culture (Vol. 1, pp. 360-362). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731.n106
  
  Cosper, David. "Blues." In The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, edited by Sturman, Janet, 360-62. Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731.n106.
  
  Cosper, D. 2019. Blues. In: Janet Sturman Editor, 2019. The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 360-362 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731.n106> [Accessed 1 Aug 2021].
  
  Cosper, David. "Blues." The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture. Edited by Janet Sturman. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks,: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2019, pp. 360-62. SAGE Knowledge. 1 Aug 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731.n106.
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