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Music of Mississippi

 This article is a supplemental part of the 
Music of the United States series.
 Roots music: before 1940
 1940s and 50s
 1960s and 70s
 1980s to the present
 African-American music
 Native American music
 Latin, Tejano, Hawaiian,
Cajun, Puerto Rican and other immigrants
Mississippi is best-known as the home of the blues, which developed among the freed African Americans in the latter half of the 19th century. The fiddle and banjo are common folk instruments in Mississippi, which has also seen some development as a gospel, country music and Appalachian folk music center. The Leake County Revelers' brand of folk music saw some national popular late in the 1930s. The state song is "Mississippi Song".