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https://edu.lva.virginia.gov/online_classroom/shaping_the_constitution/doc/minstrel_poster#:~:text=Minstrel%20shows%20developed%20in%20the%201840s%20and%20continued,popular%20with%20both%20white%20and%20African%20American%20audiences.
A form of entertainment for both whites and blacks. They were mostly white men acting as black man and included comic skits, dance and music. -
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The first shots were fired at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina
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Abe Lincoln frees the slaves. Slaves started working on share crops.
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Also called work songs these were pieces of music of songs sung while conducting a task or a song linked to a task. The first published Slave songs of the United States are the earliest collections of African American Spirituals.
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Juke joints were places were blacks went to listen to music, dance, and have fun after work.
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The blues emerged towards the end of the 19th century. The early style of blues was called the country blues. This was usually one singer with a guitar or piano.
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The new music, which blended march tempos, minstrel-show songs, and the "ragged" or syncopated rhythms, was percolating throughout the Midwest wherever African-American musicians gathered. St. Louis and Chicago, with its World's Fair, were magnets for musicians experimenting with new styles.
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"Camp Meeting Shouts.", published by the Victor Records, is the first known actual recording of black music.
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Known as Father of the Blues, got his inspiration from a bluesman playing guitar with a knife at a train station in Mississippi. Even though blues music was around since the slaves came to the Americas, he developed the 12 bar format.
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The first blues song was published. It was Antonio Maggio's 'I got the Blues'
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Many African Americans left the South and headed North. They left to escape the Jim Crow laws. They brought their musical traditions to Kansas CIty, Chicago and Detroit.
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The first blues songs, including W.C. Handy's "Memphis Blues", are published as sheet music. Handy was publishing adaptations of blues songs. Eventually, he reached a national and international audience.
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This song was written and composed by Handy. This was one of his most popular songs and has been recorded by hundredes of artists.
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Mamie Smith is the first African American Vocalist to record a song. "Crazy Blues" sells over a million copies in the first year putting the blue on the map.
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Victor and Columbia Records begin issuing the first discs of music recorded electrically with a microphone. The invention made it easier to record and music and for people to listen. Sperading the popularity of the bulues.
