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The Blues: Birth of an American Sound
By Pamela Dell
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By the last decades of the 1800s, America's first wholly black folk music--the blues--was being born all across the South. The Blues: Birth of an American Sound tells the story of the blues from the early call-and-response songs of enslaved workers to today's vibrant blues scene.
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