Unit 2 The universal language Section Ⅴ Project [原文呈现][读文清障]From the blues① to popEarly jazzToday I will take a brief look at how Western music progressed② from the blues to pop
Modern pop music has its roots③ in the folk songs of black Americans ④held in slavery⑤
During the late part of the 19th century, black musicians used these folk songs to create a kind of music called the blues, because it had a tendency⑥ to be very sad
While the blues was popular⑦， as a musical format⑧ it lacked⑨ variety and was too sad and slow to⑩ dance to⑪
Thus, from the blues, there sprung up⑫ a faster, livelier kind of music called jazz
Louis Armstrong, a black trumpet⑬ player and singer, was one of the fathers of jazz
Unlike most musicians who played the music as it was written, he would change the music
