Question

The blues are a form of folk music created by AfricanAmericans in the South in the early 1900s. The originsof this musical form are uncertain, but scholars believethat work songs and church music played importantroles. During the Great Migration of the 1920s and1930s, African American musicians brought the bluesnorth to large cities such as Chicago. Characteristics ofthe blues strongly influenced the development of othermusical genres, including jazz, country, rock and roll,and rhythm and blues.
The blues are primarily a lyrical (sung) musical formthat is characterized by a word extended over severaldifferent notes and pitches that are slightly lower, orflatter, than what is usual. The rhythm usually hassyncopation, and the mood is one of sadness, oftenbecause of lost love. Performances often take a call-and-response form, in which the singer sings asentence and an instrumentalist response. Instrumentsmost often used in blues bands are guitar, piano, bassguitar, and drums. Brass instruments, often with mutes,and saxophones are also common.
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How does the writer create cohesion between thefirst and second paragraph of this explanatorytext?
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by using the word but in the first paragraph
by repeating the idea that the blues is a
musical form
by using the word primarily in the second
paragraph
by repeating the idea that the blues is a lyric
form

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by repeating the idea that the blues is a musical form