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    This document provides a timeline and overview of key events in the history of blues music from the 1860s to the 1970s. It highlights the development of blues music out of slavery and the post-Civil War era, the growth of the Mississippi Delta as a center of blues, and the migration of blues musicians and styles to northern cities in the early 20th century. Major artists like Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Muddy Waters are noted for their influential early recordings that helped spread blues music.

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    This document provides a timeline and overview of key events in the history of blues music from the 1860s to the 1970s. It highlights the development of blues music out of slavery and the post-Civil War era, the growth of the Mississippi Delta as a center of blues, and the migration of blues musicians and styles to northern cities in the early 20th century. Major artists like Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Muddy Waters are noted for their influential early recordings that helped spread blues music.

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    From pre civil war to the 1940s and beyond

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    This document provides a timeline and overview of key events in the history of blues music from the 1860s to the 1970s. It highlights the development of blues music out of slavery and the post-Civil War era, the growth of the Mississippi Delta as a center of blues, and the migration of blues musicians and styles to northern cities in the early 20th century. Major artists like Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Muddy Waters are noted for their influential early recordings that helped spread blues music.

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    Blues Music History Timeline

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    Jakarta River Blues
    This document provides a timeline and overview of key events in the history of blues music from the 1860s to the 1970s. It highlights the development of blues music out of slavery and the post-Civil War era, the growth of the Mississippi Delta as a center of blues, and the migration of blues musicians and styles to northern cities in the early 20th century. Major artists like Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Muddy Waters are noted for their influential early recordings that helped spread blues music.

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    BLUES HISTORY TIMELINE: PreSpiritual s

    20th Century 1870s 1880s 1890s


    Ragtime is Pop

    1860s

    1900s

    1910s

    1920s

    1930s

    Pre-1776 slavery to Emancipation (1865)


    Civil War 186165

    public lynching

    guitars in South

    90% of Delta underdeveloped

    Clearin g Delta

    Settlement Growth in the Mississippi Delta

    Great Migration (from South, Urbanization) Blues Queens Surge in Black tour the South Blues, but not evangelical 1903 Handys from revival causes Delta story, Mississippi split blues is now cutting edge 1909: First Robert Early on, not an old Blues Johnson women throwback account records (1936backed by Jazz published 37) 1924: Clara RJ: Me and the Blues pop Smith, Devil Blues industry Sold Soul to (1937) Devil 1914: WC Son House Lost Urban Handy. St recordings Generation Louis Blues (1930) for Church community, guitar is the Devils Instrument Men record 1912: Memphis Blues term Blues country blues used (sheet music) (1925-26) Blues is the soundtrack to the Exodus Mami Smith, Cotton prices fall, see Great Crazy Blues Migration (1920) first Robert Johnson (1911-1938)
    Blind Lemon Jefferson Texas blues movement BLJ: 12 Bar: 100 tracks recorded (1926-29)

    Black Codes (1800-1866)

    recordings available Jim Crow Segregation Laws (1876-1965)

    New Orleans Jazz

    1940s Alan Lomax etc inventory Mississippi culture (Muddy Waters) 1950 Bluesman term coined by white folklorists Muddy Waters (1913-1983) 1950 Chess Records, Chicago 1953 Muddys Best Band

    1960s Black cultural nationalism - End Rock and Roll 1970 White audience for blues

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