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The Blues. Stage 2 History Assignment - Blues Essay 2 Vickie Clarke 'The Blues' have been a foremost influence on the development of rock music, from Negro spirituals and work songs of the black slaves, through to the R 'n' B, and the British Blues boom of the 1960's and beyond. In this essay, I am exploring the influence of several artists on the blues / rock genre as we know it today, from its cultural socio / political roots to mass popularity. The first slaves had been captured in Africa during the 16th century and shipped to North America as a source of cheap labour. Beaten, chained and transported below deck, with poor food and water, in overcrowded filthy, disease-ridden conditions, only around one third of the estimated 40million imported during the 300 years of legal slavery survived the journey. In a strange and hostile country, the frightened survivors retained what they were...

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