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Rev. Marshall W. Taylor's Book of Negro Folk Songs becomes the first collection of spiritual songs put together by African Americans.
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Henry Sloan is a legendary mini-know blues man and he played blues as early as this year. He then will go on to taught Charley Patton who will become the earliest bluesmen.
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Pat Chappelle organizes an African American theater touring company to produce many musicals. This then becomes a success and would go on to employ many early African American blues performers.
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Ma Rainey includes blues music in her stage show which led her to becoming on of the most famous performers of the genre in the whole country.
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W.C Handy is in Mississippi hears a performance which inspires his own career and this is the first time to be documented of actual blues and the use of the slide guitar.
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Many older blues performers born before this year considered themselves musicans that were ready to perform a wide variety of musical styles.
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W.C Handy publishes "The Memphis Blues" a song he had composed for mayoral campaign. This creates an "unpredicted vogue" for blues-styled music.
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Earlier in the year, the very first blues texts to be published to the public were "Baby Sea Blues" by Artie Matthews and "Dallas Blues" by Hart A. Wand.
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W.C Handy publishes the most widely popular and enduring commercial success of all the blues songs. This will then carry the blues all over the world.
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"Jelly Rolls Blues" written by Jelly Roll Morton becomes the first published jazz arrangement.
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Many African Americans began moving to northern cities, especially Chicago.IN these large groups they would bring with them their distinct forms of music.
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The Navy shuts down Storyville which results in a exodus of black musicians who had played in those bars and clubs in Memphis and Chicago. The Northerners picked up the "hot", bluesy style themselves.
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Tin Pad Alley songs spark an all new fad for Blues-like music including syncopated foxtrots like "Jazz Me Blues".
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Back in 1910 blues music was mainly instrumental and nothing else but that all changed instantly when the release of "Crazy Blues" by Mamie Smith in 1920.
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A danceable blend of swing and blues was created. First pioneered by Louis Jordan.
