Scots-Irish

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Current academic-political theories choose to discount the contributions of other cultures than enslaved ( and formerly enslaved) Africans to the Blues. However, you may find similar elements in traditional music from other sources, including the Appalachian music that derives from Celtic sources. Call -and-response, laments, and the AAB rhyme form above certainly exist in several apparently unrelated traditions. I will leave it to you, McBug, to support any connections...

I suppose one could point to the role of Spiritual music on the blues, and that would have some connection to the subject of this thread. I only studied Jazz in college, and that is why I was asking you, MacLowlife.
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