Why did the blues music develop ?
Blues music, the most representative musical form of the 1920’s in United States, emerged from the same musical and social fabric as each other early form of black American music; the pains of black people amid change> As such, blues music was reflective of the black American struggle to achieve success in life. These musical forms all emerged as responses to social, economic and often state-sanctioned rejection and repression. The circumstances of the black American in America’s history post-Emancipation greatly shaped the development of these, America’s first indigenous musical products. Though Blues music shares many similarities with Negro Spirituals beyond its development from common experience, blues music had a more human, earthward focus in terms of what success meant and what hopes were envisioned. According to writer, activist and historian Leroi Jones, also known as Amiri Baraka, the Jordan the blues spoke about was a much more human accomplishment than that of the spiritual
