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The Influence of the Blues in the 20th Century
Have you ever had a question of where did the blues originate from? How did Rock and Roll develop? How does the blues effect us? Well everywhere people go and listen to the blues music has some influence in the 20th Century. Since the past twenty years, whites and blacks are now enjoying the blues in a more accepting manner. Throughout our days in life people listen to music that tells us feelings about the slavery. Overall, the blues early history and influence upon the 20th Century gives it justification.

During the 1500's to 1870, the world brought people from West Africa to their homeland. These people became slaves. When the ships brought slaves from West Africa to America, they also brought over their music. When ships gather lots of civilians in West Africa, they also brought griots to America. The griots are the same terminology a European wandering mistrel, but in a African sense. The griots spent their lives playing music in different places. Also, during the adaptation to the homeland, the griots made a change in their music.

The expansion of the blues did effect the 20th Century greatly and became a national craze. Blue singers such as Bessie Smith and Billie holiday sold millions. Then the blues expand in the thirties and forties and went northward America. In fact, during the First World war, the American troops brought some types of blues rythum to Europe.

The evolution of the blues did change with great interest and zeal over time. The introduction of the amplifier guitar brought the blues to become electrified. Also, the forties and fifties, singers such as Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, Howlin Wolf, and Muddy waters had a lot of bass, drums, piano, and harmonicas in play with the blue notes. In addition, Rock and Roll singers of the 1950's can not deny that the blues influence made Rock and Roll. The Rock and Roll age would be at its high peak for another 20 years. In fact, Elvis Presley,...