Identify a true statement about the blues as it is considered today.Multiple choice question.It is recognized as a virtually indefinable and seemingly indestructible American music.Today, the blues offers a narrower range of creative experience to performers and listeners than before.It is recognized as a complex structure and as nonevolving.Today, the blues does not reflect global influences as it did before.

Select all that applyWhich of the following statements are true about blues?Multiple select question.Blues emerged after the Civil War and were heard from slaves and newly emancipated blacks.Blues derive from African American traditions and date from sometime in the nineteenth century.Blues, derived from Irish tradition, is primarily an instrumental music.Blues songs were field hollers which were restrained and lacked emotional content.

In the context of rural or country blues, identify an accurate statement about blues singers.Multiple choice question.They expressed their troubles sentimentally and often without wry or whimsical humor.They expressed their troubles and told unflinching stories in an unaffected, straightforward manner.They abandoned the African custom of treating the third, seventh, fifth, and sixth degrees of the scale as ambiguous tones.They clearly estimated the influence their simple music would have upon the development of every genre of American music.

Identify an accurate statement about urban blues.Multiple choice question.The texts of urban blues addressed every aspect of life, but most concerned work or, sometimes, love—unrequited, betrayed, or gone wrong.Urban blues were less complex in form and less sophisticated than rural or country blues.Although most of the stanzas of urban blues retained the three-line form, one or more verses had the conventional four- or eight-line form.Urban blues were sung around campfires or in the poorest living quarters to ease spirits when the labor day was done.

Which of the following statements related to classic blues is true?Multiple choice question.The early classic blues singers were mostly women.In contrast to country blues lyrics, which concerned love—especially love "gone wrong"—classic blues lyrics concerned a wide range of topics.Classic blues singers accompanied themselves, usually on guitar or banjo.Classic blues was less professional, less stylized, and less universal than rural blues.

Classic blues was less stylized and professionally minded than the country blues.Group startsTrue or False