Blues music and Janis Joplin

What do Chinese’s fortune cookie and blues music have in common?
Both carry the hope for the future and a way to express misfortune, inequality and regret of both early Chinese immigrants and African-American in the 19th century. To anyone’s knowledge, there is a similar/intertwined between Blues and Jazz music; some even argued that Blues was just another form of Jazz, It's understandable that people would get the wrong idea and assume since the birth of the Blues was not far away from the Jazz’s, in the Mississippi Delta which just upriver from New Orleans. When we think of blues, usually the feeling of sadness is the first thing that comes to mind for instance, blue day, blue relationship, etc., undeniably it’s a right expression for the Blues music. EX-slave and the descendants of slave whom invented the Blues sang blues to express their sadness; it’s obviously that we could learn more about African-American stories/lives through Blues music than any all word, huge history books, however they didn’t just sing it to feel it, but they sang Blues as the way to overcome those misfortunes (consider to release stress), hence the Blues is more upbeat with drum, revivalist hymns, and country dance music.

As much as Blues music to African-American, it was also Janis Joplin's way to express her feeling and a way to speak out for herself. I think a lot of beauty and pain in her voice got to do with all she went through as a young person growing up, for example she was voted in high school as an ugliest guy on campus and many more incidents; Janis Joplin put it into music which we can really hear her stories through her songs.