The Delta blues, first recorded in the 1920s, was one of the earliest types of blues music and originated in Mississippi in the Delta. The Delta was particularly poverty stricken and the ...

When we listen to blues music of the 1920s, it's like looking through a window ... would just pitch in after the flood to restore the old order, and give volunteer labor so they could go back ...

The 1920s saw a revolution ... a workingclass vision of blues life that provided an alternative to the Victorian gentility of middleclass manners In their lives and music blues women presented ...