From what you've read and heard on the blues, please respond to the following prompts:
- What characteristics of the blues helped to make it a universal form known around the world and played by all manner of jazz, blues and rock musicians?
- What characteristics of the blues made it, initially, a musical form that was not fully embraced by main-stream society?
- Why was W.C. Handy so important in the development of the blues as a popular musical style?
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