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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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The Congress agreed to end the importation of African slaves in the Americas.
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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.
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Jim Crow Laws forbade any type of relationship between different races and it inflicted sever legal punishements from 1880 to the 1960s.
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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.
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The first composed blues songs appeared as sheet music in 1912.
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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.
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Delta blues first recordes were in 1920s, however Mississippi Delta is still defined as the birthplace of blues.
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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'.
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In 1925 composers start to use a new recording technology in their music: the electrical recording technology.
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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.
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Between the 1940s and the 1950s Jump Blues became very popular. It was known for its fun, upbeat and danceable sound.
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In the late 1940s the drums and the piano were introduced to the blues.
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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.
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Throughout the 1960s this particular type of style evolved. The Delta and Chicago Blues marked its popularity.
