Blues & jazz develop along the trail of the Black American dispora
As Black Americans left the field hand work of Louisiana, Mississippi and other southern states, they took their culture and went north. In cities such as St Louis and Chicago they found factory work, housing in tenement buildings and a different - if not particularly better - life.
The story of Louis Armstrong and Joe King Oliver was to leave New Orleans and go to Chicago - where they were much in demand for performing and recording.
Eventually both pushed on to NYC, the Big Apple. It became the center of Jazz for decades.
The word diaspora (dispersal) also applies to the Jews (Palestine to Europe, etc), to Africans in the Atlantic slave trade and to the Irish, among others.
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