The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture

David Cosper

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By: David Cosper
In:The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture
Chapter DOI:https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731
Subject:Popular Music, Social & Cultural Anthropology, Sociology of Culture
Keywords:blues

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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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