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1. The concept of the blues is firstly the twelve-bar, three-line stanzas with the first statement repeated in the second line and supplemented or extended in the third line.

2. As far as the roots are concerned, structurally and stylistically the blues is said to draw on the same traditions and material that had provided the basis for the spirituals and work songs.

3. Developed by people engaged in struggle, the blues is supposedly rooted in African music.

4. The blues were originally sung and performed throughout the Delta in fields and plantation shacks, churches juke joints, many of which rarely exist today.

5. The success of blues music, however, is a relatively recent phenomenon.

6. In fact, it is considered to be one of the most important root sources of modern popular music.

7. Due to the region’s European, African American, Native American roots, the blues influenced other musical styles as well, including honky-tonk, boogie woogie, country/ western, swamp pop, and rockabilly.

8. This particular kind of blues creatively absorbed elements from other locales and other sorts of music and survived transplantation from an isolated rural environment to an urban and eventually an international milieu without losing either its essential musical and poetic identity or its particular inner fire.

9. John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Albert King, Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, Tommy Johnson, Sonny Boy Williamson, Mississippi John Hurt, and B.B. King are blues players. These artists and many others developed their unique style of Delta blues and have influenced following generations of blues artists.

10. Many people are convinced that the music itself has never needed interpreters or popularizers that it has always been strong enough to stand on its own.

11. It is the story of a small and deprived group of people who created something that has enriched the whole world.

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