What do you know about the music called “the blues”？ Do you think it is the same thing as jazz? Well，in some ways the two types of music are related，but the blues has its own history and development that is quite different from that of jazz. The beginnings of the blues date back to the nineteenth century. After the Civil War，when the slaves were free in the South，life was hard.As African Americans came together and formed their own communities，the blues began to develop out of some of their earlier

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