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The first appearance of the blues is usually dated after the Emancipation Act of 1863, [37] between 1860s and 1890s, [2] a period that coincides with post- emancipation and later, the establishment of juke joints as places where African-Americans went to listen to music, dance, or gamble after a hard day's work. [47]
May 8, 2024 · Blues, secular folk music created by African Americans in the early 20th century, originally in the South. The simple but expressive forms of the blues became by the 1960s one of the most important influences on the development of popular music. Learn more about blues, including notable musicians.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The first appearance of the blues is not well defined and is often dated between 1870 and 1900, a period that coincides with the emancipation of the slaves and the transition from slavery to sharecropping and small-scale agricultural production in the southern United States.
Feb 21, 2024 · Looking into “When did blues music start?” will take you back to the 19th Century. By the late 1800s, blues music was beginning to surface among the working class. In the 1870s, people searching for a new way of living after the Civil War started to make songs to sing while they worked.
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The story of Blues Music began in northwestern Mississippi in the late 1800’s. It was initially a folk music popular among former slaves living in the Mississippi Delta, the flat plain between the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers.
In 1908, New Orleans produced the first published blues composition - "I Got the Blues," written by an Italian American named Antonio Maggio. Blues became widely-known in the 1910s when it emerged as a modern trend in popular music.
W.C. Handy, c. 1930s. The origins of the blues are poorly documented. Blues developed in the southern United States after the American Civil War (1861–65). It was influenced by work songs and field hollers, minstrel show music, ragtime, church music, and the folk and popular music of the white population.
