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The slaves that lived in the south suffering difficult working conditions created lots of songs signifying their hope. eventually, the civil war and abolition of slavery brought this hope to life. -
The emancipation proclamation of 1863 initiated a lot of places where African Americans would play/listen to live blues music
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the book "slave songs of the united states" was published. It is a book with 136 African-American compositions sung by working slaves -
This was when Scott Joplin published one of his most well-known songs. -
Victor records publishes first ever recordings of African-American field hollers
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First ever blues song actually published. Antonio Maggios "I got the blues" -
More early blues songs are now getting published as sheet music, including W.C handys "Memphis Blues" -
Mamie smiths 1920 rendition of Crazy blues sold over 1,000,000 copies in its first year -
Bessie smith was one of the most influental female blues artists of her time, and she was starting to gain recognition. -
an electrical recording technology for music is introduced and as a result, blues becomes much more widespread and easily accesible
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he was the first artist to play blues to a white audience outside the South -
muddy waters creates his first Chicago blues recordings -
Muddy waters performs at Newport Jazz festival to quite an audience -
the fillmore east is open, moung the first artists to perfrom were janis joplin and albert king -
Congress declares year 2003 as the year of the blues