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  1. Apr 25, 2017 · The earliest forms of what we now know as blues music originated from the Southern regions of the United States among communities of African Americans in the second half of the 19th Century. It came about as a result of fusing African musical traditions with Black Americans' work songs and European-American folk music.

  2. May 9, 2018 · Contrary to what some people believe, the blues is not "slave music." Although it was cultivated by the descendants of slaves, the blues was the expression of freed African Americans. The Great Migration directly influenced the blues’ many evolutions. As Black people moved from the South to northern

  3. While is there isn’t a definite origin as to who exactly created the Blues, we do have a good idea as to how it came to us today: W.C. Handy. William Christopher Handy was born in Alabama in 1873 and who worked a number of odd jobs before establishing himself as both a musician and a music teacher.

  4. Feb 21, 2024 · The originators of blues were the workers in southern fields who faced life’s hardships and newly freed slaves who used music to heal from the traumas of modern life. The music echoed this feeling of struggle, with themes of sorrow and resilience common in early and contemporary blues music.

  5. Jun 2, 2015 · ARTS & CULTURE. Where the Blues Was Born. At Dockery Farms, the original bluesmen created a sound that would become legendary. Jim Morrison. Science Correspondent. June 2, 2015. The legendary...

  6. 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.

  7. Mar 3, 2024 · The earliest forms of country blues originated in the Mississippi Delta region of the southern United States. Although the first Delta Blues recordings emerged in the 1920s, the roots of the Delta style run deep in the cotton plantations of Mississippi.

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