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In the early 1940s, Black musicians from Mississippi migrated north and settled around the Maxwell Street Market on Chicago's West Side, electrifying the Delta sound and giving birth to a hard-driving urban blues style. What is that style called?
Chicago blues was shaped by Mississippi bluesmen who moved north to Chicago in the early 1940s. As Chicago's Black population grew on the West Side by 1940, the Maxwell Street Market became an important gathering place for those same Chicago blues musicians from the South.