…melancholic music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence. It developed in the rural southern US towards the end of the 19th century, finding a wider audience in the 1940s, as blacks migrated to the cities. This urban blues gave rise to rhythm and blues and rock and roll…
…melancholic music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence. It developed in the rural southern US towards the end of the 19th century, finding a wider audience in the 1940s, as blacks migrated to the cities. This urban blues gave rise to rhythm and blues and rock and roll…
…a simple form of blues in which the singer is accompanied by an acoustic guitar…
…a style of blues music in which the lyrics are more or less spoken rather than sung…
…a form of popular music of US black origin which arose during the 1940s from blues, with the addition of driving rhythms taken from jazz. It was an immediate precursor of rock and roll…
…a person who has represented Oxford or Cambridge University in a minor sport or as a second choice in any sport…
…a staunchly loyal supporter of the Conservative Party…
…a small Eurasian butterfly, the male of which has vivid sky-blue wings…
…a person who has represented Oxford University at a particular sport in a match against Cambridge University…
…a heavily muscled animal of a breed of cattle kept for its meat…
…a cat of a breed with short greyish-blue fur, green eyes, and large pointed ears…
…a person who has represented Cambridge University at a particular sport in a match against Oxford University…
…a European blue butterfly of calcareous grassland, of which the male is silvery-blue with blackish markings and the female is brown…
…a cattle dog with a dark speckled body…
