Jake's+Blue's+Journal

I chose the blue’s journal because it was fun. I was able to go into detail and really look into the actual meaning behind the blue’s. It was really cool to look back into the history of the blues and how it was started. What are the Blues? Where do they come from?

The Blues are a style of art. Blues were used as a style of writing as well as music. Its goal was to show sadness in African American culture. The purpose was to take old slave songs and turn them to music. These songs then turned and branched off into other forms of song such as, country, and urban blues. The blues has made up of many different styles. The most famous where the Delta, Piedmont, Jump, and Chicago blues. As for what the blues really are though, the style is what sets it apart from the other genres of music. Blues has a distinct twelve-bar count, specific lyrics and instruments. But where did the blues come from? The first actual publication of blues music was in 1912 by Hart Wand, called “Dallas Blues”, followed by “Memphis Blues”, by W. Handy. However some say that the origin dates back to 1890 but due to discrimination it was not well documented.