THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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Blues music originated in the factories of the urban Northeast.
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Blues music originated in the American Navy among sailors on deployments at sea.
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Blues music originated in the poverty-stricken Mississippi Delta.
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Blues music began in the American prison system, particularly in the strict prisons of California.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Blues developed in the southern United States after the American Civil War (1861–65). It was influenced by work songs and field hollers, minstrel show music, ragtime, church music, and the folk and popular music of the white population.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mississippi Delta blues, also known as Delta blues, regional style of early 20th-century American folk music, centred in the Delta region of northwestern Mississippi.
Detailed explanation-3: -The earliest references to blues date back to the 1890s and early 1900s. In 1912 Black bandleader W.C. Handy’s composition “Memphis Blues” was published. It became very popular, and thereafter many other Tin Pan Alley songs entitled blues began to appear.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods; it’s the birthplace of uniquely American music. As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of being in a flood.