The blues is purely African, with no elements of European musical structure.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

False

Blues music incorporated some elements from European music that African Americans had heard in church. Most notably, recurring song forms gave structure to blues songs and soon the twelve-bar blues harmonic progression became standard.

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