Blues Music

African Americans in Chicago blended the culture they had cultivated in the South to their new urban environment. Blues music was a prime example of this syncretism. The style of music developed in the Mississippi Delta and dealt with the struggles of every day life that African Americans faced. Blues artists incorporated the struggles African Americans faced in Chicago with the style of music developed in the South, making their cultural imprint on the city. David "Honeyboy" Edwards moved from Mississipi to Chicago in the 1950s and embodied the syncretism that made the Chicago blues.