When was the 12 bar blues developed? By who? IN whay city was it started?

Question

Please list your reference site.....

Answer 1

The standard 12-bar blues form is documented from oral history and sheet music appearing about 1930 in African American communities throughout the region along the lower Mississippi River, in Memphis, Tennessee's Beale Street, and by white bands in New Orleans.

Answer 2

By 1920 three distinct blues formats had developed : the 8 bar blues, the 12 bar blues and the 16 bar blues.

From these three the 12 bar blues quickly became the most popular form.
It is still the most common blues form used by contemporary musicians.

Answer 3

The 12 bar blues was probably the first blues ever played. It's hard to say, as most old blues music didn't credit writers or anything like that. We do know that the blues started in the Missisippi delta, so it probably developed there, early in the 1900s, maybe earlier. It was an outgrowth from the old gospel songs.

I don't have a reference site, I learned form the masters, I grew up with an old black blues man, he was a father to me, my friend, and mentor.

Answer 4

William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 – March 28, 1958) was an African American blues composer and musician, often known as "the Father of the Blues."

While Handy was not the first to publish music in the blues form, he took the blues from an obscure regional music style to one of the dominant forces in American music.

Handy was born in Florence, Alabama to freed slaves, Charles Bernard Handy and Elizabeth Bewer Handy. His father was pastor of a small charge in Guntersville, Alabama, another small town in northeast central Alabama. Handy wrote in his 1941 autobiography Father of the Blues, that he was born in the log cabin built by his grandfather William Wise Handy, who became an African Methodist Episcopal minister after emancipation. The log cabin of Handy's birth has been saved and preserved in downtown Florence.

The 1912 publication of his "Memphis Blues" sheet music introduced his style of 12-bar blues to many households, and was credited as the inspiration for the invention of the foxtrot dance step by Vernon and Irene Castle, a New York-based dance team. Some consider it to be the first blues song. He sold the rights to the song for $100, and by 1914, at age 40, his musical style was asserted, his popularity increased significantly, and he composed prolifically

In 1926 he authored and edited a work entitled Blues: An Anthology: Complete Words and Music of 53 Great Songs, which is probably the first work of its type which attempted to record, analyze and describe the blues as an integral part of the U. S. South and the history of the United States.

Answer 5

The Blues evolved from spirituals and field hollers sung by African slaves in and around the Mississippi Delta area. It estimates to be somewhere around the late 1800's. The first published Blues music is dated 1912. Blues became a major element in American popular music in the 1920's.