... that respond. There is a strong emphasis on improvisation, a key element that appears in almost all American popular music. Lastly, African singing style and its applied scale had a large impact in America. The singing style is very fluid and expressive, with a slide on almost every pitch. For example, the correlation, between the lullaby sung by Zulu women, and the performance of blues ... the third is a response or comment on the first two. This music, first associated with the Mississippi Delta, when brought out of the south and popularized, notably by W.C. Handy. Taken north at the ...

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