the blues
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Flushed and sweating, 31-year-old Annisa Enggracia Fidel runs back and forth to defend her fort from invaders -- hundreds of fellow adults all beating the blues by playing a nostalgic Indonesian children's game.
From Barron's • Jun. 15, 2026
He said the US was "where all the music we loved came from, all the rock 'n' roll, the blues and the whole thing...America was just the land of the free, the greatest democracy".
From BBC • May 22, 2026
One central scene that employs magical realism to trace the history of Black music from West Africa through the blues to present-day hip-hop is a standout -- before the blood flows.
From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026
“I couldn’t imagine making a movie about the blues without giving some deeper context on what that music really signifies,” Coogler writes in an email.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026
The girl was made of all the blues, and little sparks shot out from all her edges, shards of glass falling off and away.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
