talking blues
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the song “Talking Blues”, recorded by Chris Bouchillon in Atlanta in 1926.
Noun
[edit]talking blues (countable and uncountable, plural talking blues)
- (music) A form of folk music characterized by rhythmic speech or near-speech where the melody is free, but the rhythm is strict.
Further reading
[edit]talking blues on Wikipedia.Wikipedia