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  3. The blues was born on the Mississippi River Delta in the early 1900s. After the Civil War, the slaves were free but life was sti

The blues was born on the Mississippi River Delta in the early 1900s. After the Civil War, the slaves were free but life was sti

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问题    The blues was born on the Mississippi River Delta in the early 1900s. After the Civil War, the slaves were free but life was still not easy. They had to find new work. In the South, work camps were formed. Black people from these camps worked on farms and on building up the Mississippi River banks. During the weeks the people worked long and hard. They often lived alone, without their families, far from home. On the weekends, the workers got together at picnics or drinking places. Travelling black musicians with guitars entertained them. The musicians sang songs about the difficult life of the workers. These songs were called the blues.
   If you have the blues it means you feel very sad. You can have the blues because you have no money, no job, no lover, or no home. But blue songs were not always sad. Some of them were happy and many of them were funny.
   Sometimes the blues singers had song contests. Each singer sang new words or a new style of the blues song. They made up the music as they played. In this way they created new music. This is called improvisation. Later, improvisation became a very important part of jazz music.
   Blues began in the country in the South. As blacks moved into the big cities to work, the blues went with them. There, they sang about life in the cities. W. C. Handy, a black band leader from Memphis made the blues popular all over America. In 1914 he wrote the most famous blues song of all, "The St. Louis Blues".
At the very beginning, the blues were______.
选项 A、not performed on formal occasions
B、traditional songs of the Black people
C、about the life of travelling musicians
D、very popular throughout the nation
答案A
解析 细节判断题。从第一段最后一句可以得知，布鲁斯音乐是在工作的黑人们休息的时候，旅行的黑人音乐家为了娱乐他们而唱的歌，所以说这些音乐是不正式的，答案选A。B和D文章没有提到；这些音乐是关于黑人的苦难生活的，所以C也不对。
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