| LC control no. | sh 85015115 |
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| LC classification | ML3521 History and criticism |
| Topical heading | Blues (Music) |
| Variant(s) | Blues (Music)--United States Blues (Songs, etc.) Jive (Music) |
| See also | headings for music of individual instruments followed by the qualifier "(Blues)" and the subdivisions Methods (Blues) and Studies and exercises (Blues) under individual musical instruments and families of instruments African Americans--Music Folk music--United States Popular music Rhythm and blues music Washboard band music |
| Scope note | This heading is assigned to blues with voice(s) or for two or more instrumentalists. |
| Found in | New Grove dict. of Amer. mus.: secular black-American folk music of the 20th century, which has a history and evolution separate from, but sometimes related to, that of jazz; until the end of World War II blues recordings had been classified and marketed as race records--this segregation contributed to the development of postwar rhythm-and-blues, a term free of racial connotations |
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