BLUES: Sociocultural manifestation and insertion of the black people in the begining of the 20th century

Abstract

This article will deal about the origins of the blues and its development in the early Twentieth centuryin the United States. Born in the songs intoned during the work on the cotton fields in the South, the bluesappeared as a cultural and social manifestation of the black man in front of segregation and oppressive situation.Following the everyday life interpretation established by Michel de Certeau, it is proposed that the emergence ofthe blues has to do with the tactics created by blacks as a way to survive the strategy established by the economicand politic order established. Reporting daily topics and fanciful, the blues songs and singers (the bluesmen)were an important step in the representation and consolidation of an african-american culture. Culture is thatuntil now has consolidated its space in American society.