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people would blackface and perform shoes which was popular in America at the time -
slaves were used for many years in the south and the blues genre developed from the slaves harsh work conditions
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slave songs were published this was the earliest collection of blues music
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Dockery farm workers learned blues and carried it with them as they moved from plantation to plantation increasing the popularity.
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Scott joplin published maple leaf rag and ragtime became a huge influence on blues
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Victor records camp meeting shouts which was the first known recording of black music this played a huge part in the popularity of blues
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W.C Handy who was a musician saw a blues man playing a guitar at the train station.
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Ralph Peer who was a famous artist made the recording debut of folk blues as well as country music -
The first male folk blues records, featuring singers Papa Charlie Jackson and Daddy Stovepipe, are issued and avaliable to the public
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during widespread economic ruin, sales of records and phonographs plummet, crippling the recording industry this was a setback for blues
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Louis Jordan creates jump blues. jump blues was a mix of swing and blues which made it danceable
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George Beauchamp and engineer Adolph Rickenbacker develop the electric guitar this changes the game of Blues and every other genre
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Muddy Waters makes his first Chicago record beginning his stint as the dominant figure in the Chicago blues and a key link between the Mississippi Delta and the urban styles.
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Elvis presley one of the most popular artist helps carry blues to new heights
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Samuel Chartes creates The Country Blues which began to bing back folk music
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Muddy Waters and B.B. King would perform at the Fillmore East, a concert venue in the East Village region of New York City, to a predominantly white audience. this expanded blues even further
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Congress declares 2003 the "Year of the Blues," commemorating the 100th anniversary of W.C. Handy's encounter with an unknown early bluesman at a train station in Mississippi. This staples Blues in the history of music and makes it recognizzed by the whole world.