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Blues music was very influential not to only rock-and-roll and hip-hop but it influenced the very world around it, from helping oppressed African Americans express their feelings to giving people enough hope to fight for equality.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920s tought me alot about the 1920's
http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/decade/1920.htm tought me about how the inventing of the radio affected blues and jazz
http://www.yelp.com/search?find_loc=Philadelphia%2C+PA%2C+USA&cflt=jazzandblues showed me some possible places for me to interview people that may know how jazz and blues ties into philadelphia

B.B. King a blues guitar great.

today i started to research about the twenties and how the music of the twenties have been affected by the blues. Jazz which is a type of music that been highly influenced by blues, was the music of the time. The twenties were even named after the music "The Jazz Age". It was a great time for music, America was on an economic incline, which gave many musicians the opportunity to come up and get noticed. Another thing that helped out the blues/jazz music scene was the prohibition of alcohol. It caused the opening of speigiezies(a secret bar) were music needed to be played to entertain the customers.