The language and poetry of the blues.

The Blues was considered to be a form of poetry back in the early 1900s. During the Harlem renaissance, many black poets such as Langston Hughes wrote poetry in reference to his experiences with the Blues. The Idea for the blues to not follow the format of British ballads, force the genre under the category of pop music.  Blues was not classified as folk music, due to the rampart rhythm, and poetry based lyrics.  Early scholars have concluded the blues as a folk style, because it represented the culture of African Americans, by having its own distinctive language. What I found interesting about the composure of the blues is that the lyrics can be made using anything. Meaning, the lyrics can be drawn from the slang of the urban neighborhoods to the Victorian magazine. The culture integration of music from Africans and white settles, led to the creation of a genre of music that cannot be solely created by one style of music.