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ndy, blues entered the arena of popular song. Classic city blues evolved in the 1920s and 1930s in the singing of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and others and blues then became as much a style of women musicians as of men (Leigh and King, 1993, p. 27).

Lyrical and musical forms became largely standardized in the years before World War II, and singers often worked with jazz band or piano. Adapted to solo piano, blues gave rise to boogie-woogie piano playing and blues and jazz began to blend into each o

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