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Camp Meeting Shouts is the first known publication of African American music, allowing blues artists to be able to publish their music as well
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W.C. Handy discovers and documents the 12-bar format for music -
Some of the first blues sheet music was published, introducing it to the public -
W.C. Handy found his inspiration from a bluesman in Mississippi at a train station -
Memphis Blues was published, becoming one of the most popular and widely accepted blues songs of its time
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Mamie Smith's song "Crazy Blues" led to the development of the term race recording
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Big Bill Broonzy moves to Chicago, creating and popularizing the Chicago Blues -
Sylvester Weaver records the first song displaying slide guitar. -
Electric recording technology is invented which allows blues to spread much farther to a larger population of people -
The Great Depression resulted in a huge drop i consumerism, which really hit the music industry, especially the blues -
African Americans continue to migrate to the North due to WW2 and grow their music there -
B.B. King, a huge blues artist, published his first record -
Muddy Waters makes his first Chicago recordings
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B.B. King's Three O'Clock Blues gets very popular
Three O'Clock Blues -
Muddy Waters performs at the Newport Jazz Festival to a large audience