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minstrel shows gain popularity
these where shows that everyone would go see from across the world -
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from the beggining to the end
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slave songs published
These songs where written and published during the slave era -
maple leaf rag published
This was the most popular song in the time -
black music first recorded
this was the time for black music -
Bluesman discovered
W.C Handy sees a bluesman playing guitar in a train station -
Folk blues Debuts
this is where country music was born -
First folk blues records
The first male folk blues records, featuring singers Papa Charlie Jackson and Daddy Stovepipe, are issued. -
Great Depression
signaling the beginning of the Great Depression in the United States. Amid widespread economic ruin, sales of records and phonographs plummet, crippling the recording industry. -
Jump blues
Jump blues was pioneered by Louis Jordan -
Electric guitar introduced
The modern instrument, first developed by musician George Beauchamp -
Muddy waters and chicago blues
Muddy Waters makes his first Chicago recordings, beginning his tenure as the dominant figure in the Chicago blues and a key link between the Mississippi Delta and the urban styles. -
Elvis Debuts
Elvis Presley makes his recording debut on Sun Records with a version of Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup's "That's All Right." -
The country blues
Samuel Charters publishes The Country Blues, fueling the blues element of the folk music revival. -
Year of blues
Congress declares 2003 the "Year of the Blues,"
