jazz blues and rock n roll
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The origin of blues revolves around one's life. For many years, blues was only recorded through memory, and played in person. Blues was born in Mississippi right after the Civil War. It was influenced through the African roots, workers on the fields known "field hollers", and church music which evolved into music where a person would sing about their day on a guitar.
Jazz roots date back to the 1880's with African origins. It started out with a mixture of many types of music, combining elements of African music with elements of Western European music. New Orleans was believed to be the birth place of Jazz. Groups known as the Creoles were brought to Louisiana, and lived under the French and Spanish rule in Louisiana. In 1894, the Creoles were forced to live on the west side of New Orleans with the blues singers. "The mixture of the two styles of music and two cultures clashed and created the start of jazz...