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The Great Migration Chicago Style Blues Intro: Instrumental       In 1850, some 300 Black people lived in Chicago. However, during...

The Alternating Bassline played by the thumb Intro: Old Papa The Piedmont region was settled early in American history. The Piedmont...

The Father of the Blues W. C. Handy, also known as the "Father of the Blues," was crucial in bringing structure, form, and...

The Land Where The Blues Began The Mississippi Delta stretches from Memphis in the North to 200 miles south of Vicksburg,...

"Work songs had three primary functions:

The Emergence of Rural Blues in America The Africans that survived the middle passages experienced culture shock. Most African tribes...

African American history begins with the slave trade. Many of the enslaved Africans were from the West African Coastal region.

Blues music emerged as folk music on the cotton plantations in the South.