Where did blues music start?

Answer 1

it started in the 18th and 19th centrie when the slaves came from Africa to be used as slaves to the americans . they were very unhappy ! they would play their traditional music by singing . this made the africans happyer !they did this to make the day feel like its going faster and be more happy even though they had a hard and depressing time ....

Answer 2

Rhythm & blues has its roots in the U.S. in the 1940's. It didn't begin as a specific type of music, but rather a catchall or umbrella term. (This according to authors who traced the history of R & B.)

The Blues Music was usually about love, relationships and life's troubles.

Answer 3

The migration of African Americans to the urban industrial centers of Chicago, Detroit, New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere in the 1930s created a new market for jazz, blues, and related genres of music, often performed by full-time musicians, either working solo or in small groups. The precursors of rhythm and blues came from jazz and blues, which overlapped in the 1930s through musicians such as Leroy Carr, Cab Calloway, Count Basie, and T-Bone Walker. There was also increasing emphasis on the Electric Guitar as a lead instrument, as well as the piano and Saxophone.

Answer 4

Rock and roll started gradually; in fact, it evolved over a thirty year period of time. What is today called "rock and roll" actually began as rhythm and blues in the 1910s and 1920s. When radio came along, that brought the music to a much wider audience (we know that blues singer Bessie Smith was heard on the air in the early 1920s, for example); but most often, rhythm and blues was heard on phonograph records, or played in night clubs and ballroooms. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, this music was often called "race music" since it was identified with the black (then called "negro") race, but the truth is that plenty of white people liked it too. Throughout the Big Band era, some of the best-known all-white orchestras performed mass-appeal versions of songs that had begun in the rhythm and blues genre.

Many historians credit 1950s disc jockey Alan Freed with giving rock and roll its name, but that is a myth. What is true, however, is that Freed was one of the first white deejays to play black music, and his influence helped to bring rhythm and blues to the white audience. In segregated America, this was controversial, but the fact remained: both black and white listeners loved the music. In addition to a number of popular black performers, it was soon being performed by white entertainers (most notably Elvis Presley), and by a number of integrated vocal groups. By the mid-1950s, rock and roll had gained a huge audience among young people, who rejected their parents' big band songs in favor of the beat and the energy of rock.

Answer 5

Blues music started with black Americans in the Southern US during the 19th Century.

Answer 6

Blues is unique people were slaves when they did it. their music gotn all around the world and the music is known as blues and rhythm. yo i dont know if its true.

Answer 7

r & b music started in the late 1940s and 1950s

Answer 8

The development of rythm & blues can be implied by the development of a full blues band rather than just a guitar & harp