I've already done that on the other thread. I don't feel like looking crap up again. I already told you where those genres come from. Look up a source yourself. You own quote says the:  In terms of lute ancestors, some scholars propose that the West African plucked lutes are descended from those of Pharonic Egypt. Others contend that it was the other way around, that sub-Sahara West Africa was the actual source of the ancient Egyptian lutes.  Needless to say, this is the subject of much heated debate.   Well here's something about the Blues....straight from your beloved wikipedia since I'm feeling lazy and it's the quick option. Luckily for me, they actually tell some truth for once... If you want anymore references you can look them up yourself. It's not my job to convince you of the truth, as long as I know where all of this music originates from I am content. I don't really care what you want to think amigo.     The musical forms and styles that are now considered the blues as well as modern  country music  arose in the same regions during the nineteenth century in the southern United States. Recorded blues and country can be found from as far back as the 1920s, when the popular record industry developed and created marketing categories called  race music  and  hillbilly music  to sell music by blacks for blacks and by whites for whites, respectively.   At the time, there was no clear musical division between blues and country, except for the ethnicity of the performer, and even that sometimes was documented incorrectly by record companies . [22]   Studies have situated the origin of black spirituals inside slaves' exposure to their white  Hebridean -originated gospels.  African-American economist and historian  Thomas Sowell  also notes that the southern, black, ex-slave population was acculturated to a considerable degree by and among their Scots-Irish  redneck  neighbours.     The phrase the blues is a reference to the the blue devils, meaning 'down' spirits, depression and sadness. An early reference to the blues can be found in George Colman's farce Blue devils, a farce in one act (1798).[1] Later during the 19th century, the phrase was used as a euphemism for delirium tremens and the police, and was not uncommon in letters from homesick Civil War soldiers.    Though the use of the phrase in African American music may be older, it has been attested to since 1912, when  Hart Wand's Dallas Blues became the first copyrighted Blues composition .[2][3]    Hart Wand was White by the way.