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密西西比德尔塔区的蓝调及常规节庆
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想想您所聆听的音乐其中所表达出的各种情绪：高兴、快乐、孤独、紧张及不可或缺的悲伤。带有悲伤旋律的音乐常被称为「蓝调」。
蓝调是美国于内战过后，南方的黑人逐渐发展出来的音乐类型。当奴隶自非洲被带来美国时，他们也带着他们的音乐常规一起过来。混合了民族及白人流行音乐，这些非洲常规音乐渐渐发展成蓝调音乐。
据信，蓝调是发源于密西西比州的德尔塔区，这是一个位于密西西比州北部的楔形地区，介于密西西比州及亚祖河之间。它是一个农村地区，里面住着最贫穷且最弱势的黑人，这种生活方式创造了表达悲伤的需求，而最常出现在蓝调歌曲内的情绪便是悲伤。这个社区的生活充满了贫穷、种族歧视及不人道的工作状况，这也使得黑人动身前往北方的城市，如：孟菲斯市、芝加哥、圣路易市及底特律。
然而，蓝调并未从密西西比州的乡间消失。1978年，密西西比州开始举办德尔塔区蓝调及常规节庆，藉以庆祝及推广蓝调及密西西比州德尔塔区的居民文化。刚开始时，这个节庆只是平板拖车上的一个表演，但现在它是南方各州历史最悠久、规模最盛大蓝调节庆，表演分为三个舞台，而参观游客则达20,000人。
Think about all the emotions expressed in the music you listen to: joy, happiness, loneliness, nervousness, and, of course, sadness. Music with sad themes is often called the "blues."
Blues music developed in the United States among Southern blacks after the Civil War. When slaves were brought to America from Africa, they brought their musical traditions with them. Blended with folk and popular music of whites, these African musical traditions developed into the blues.
The blues is believed to have originated in the Mississippi Delta, a wedge-shaped region in northern Mississippi between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers. This is a rural area where the poorest and most disadvantaged black people lived -- this lifestyle created a need for the expression of sadness that is so often sung in the blues. The conditions in this area -- poverty, racism, and inhumane working situations -- led many blacks to go north, to cities such as Memphis, Chicago, St. Louis and Detroit.
The blues did not vanish from the Mississippi countryside, however, and in 1978, the Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival was founded to celebrate and promote the blues and the culture of the Mississippi Delta people. What started out on the back of a flatbed truck is now the oldest and largest blues festival in the South, with 20,000 visitors and performances on three festival stages.
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