Hoodoo & Blues Music Many Americans will recognize Blues music as a mother genre of most modern American music today, giving way to rock, jazz, and popular music with its unique rhythms and musical lines. The Delta Blues, as it was known, was also commonly known as Hoodoo Music, Hoodoo being the African-based folk religion in early America during the time of slavery. As Blues music developed, African American conjurers of Hoodoo in the South utilized music to help them mask their workings and to motivate their followers to keep their strength and have faith in their spiritual practices during…