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First African Slaves arrived in the Americas
In 1619 the first West coast African slaves, including women and children, were transported to the colony of Virginia in the Americas. -
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Blues music history
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End of imported slaves
The Congress agreed to end the importation of African slaves in the Americas. -
Deep South
In the last fifty years of 1800 the center of influential bluesmen, who assisted in the improvement of this type of music, was Deep South. -
Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow Laws forbade any type of relationship between different races and it inflicted sever legal punishements from 1880 to the 1960s. -
Memphis and St. Louis
Memphis and St. Loius increased their population and became significant cities for blues music in the beginning 1990s when the African-Americans were migrating towards the north. This two cities induced new forms of blues. -
Sheet Music
The first composed blues songs appeared as sheet music in 1912. -
African-Americans Migration
The United States of America joined World War One. This factor causes the great migration of African-Americans, which start to move to different directions throughout the State. -
Delta Blues
Delta blues first recordes were in 1920s, however Mississippi Delta is still defined as the birthplace of blues. -
Beale Street
Blues became vey popular in Memphis, Tennessee and Beale Street is considered the starting point for the novice musicians for the field of blues. In the 1920s, this location fastly became the show window for 'jug bands'. -
Innovated recording technology
In 1925 composers start to use a new recording technology in their music: the electrical recording technology. -
World War II
Thanks to World War II a development in blues music occours. Eletric blues substitutes acoustic blues and there is an increase in the number of audience that enjoyes listening to this type of music, especially white listeners. -
Jump Blues
Between the 1940s and the 1950s Jump Blues became very popular. It was known for its fun, upbeat and danceable sound. -
Innovations
In the late 1940s the drums and the piano were introduced to the blues. -
The British blues
The significant impact by the sound of Deltas blues and by the style of Chicago blues brought to the British blues renewal in the 1950s. -
Blues Rock
Throughout the 1960s this particular type of style evolved. The Delta and Chicago Blues marked its popularity.
