Chapter 1          History the Blues 

The history of the blues from the beginning to the present day.

The blues was created in response to difficulties experienced by generations of African-American designations (for citizens of the United States of African descent). It originated in rural Mississippi Delta in the early twentieth century, but there is evidence from the nineteenth century.

The Blues began as the voice of slaves to the cotton fields of the southern United States. They sang during work on plantations to alleviate the harshness of the work.

While blacks let out your emotions, whites saw the practical side of things. For farmers, the work-songs (work songs) helped to print a rhythm to work in the field and let the slaves happier. From the 1860s, the spirituals - religious songs sung by black Africans since their arrival in America - have undergone a fundamental mutation. Besides appealing to God, slaves began to heal their pains of love through music.

The Blues is also the lament of wandering the roads, so we got to the city, took the microphone and electric guitar.

Created in the last century, it took its final shape only after 1900. The first recordings date from the years 10. But the Blues wait a little longer to flourish thanks to the talent of Big Bill Bronzy, Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, Bo Dudley, BB King, Lowell Fulson, John Lee Hooker, Howlin 'Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, Slim and Memplis Buddy Guy.

The transgression was not alone in loving and sexual connotations of the lyrics of Blues. In the musical format, the style also marked a break. Joining the complexity and rigidity of jazz scholars, the Blues began as a raw music. With an almost simplistic harmonic basis, the style has spread rapidly through the southern United States. Play and sing the Blues was theoretically simple. But what turned especially true bluesman was the feeling he put into his interpretation.

In the late nineteenth century, the high birth rate caused by the emancipation of the slaves brought other work to blacks. Many left the countryside and moved to the outskirts of the big southern cities like Chicago, Memphis and the Delta region of the