During the Great Migration of the 1920s and 1930s, African American musicians brought the blues north to large cities such as Chicago. Characteristics of the blues strongly influenced the development of other musical genres, including jazz, country, rock and roll, and rhythm and blues.
The blues are primarily a lyrical (sung) musical form that is characterized by a word extended over several different notes and pitches that are slightly lower, or flatter, than what is usual. The rhythm usually has syncopation, and the mood is one of sadness, often because of lost love.
Performances often take a call-and-response form, in which the singer sings a sentence and an instrumentalist response. Instruments most often used in blues bands are guitar, piano, bass guitar, and drums. Brass instruments, often with mutes, and saxophones are also common.
Use the passage to answer the question.
How does the writer create cohesion between the first and second paragraph of this explanatory text?
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O by repeating the idea that the blues is a musical form
O by repeating the idea that the blues is a lyric form
O by using the word but in the first paragraph
O by using the word primarily in the second paragraph
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The writer creates cohesion between the first and second paragraph of the explanatory text by:
O by repeating the idea that the blues is a musical form.
This option relates to the discussion of the blues in both paragraphs, emphasizing its identity as a musical genre and linking the ideas presented.
