Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.
Electric blues is a type of blues music distinguished by the amplification of the guitar bass guitar drums and often the harmonica. Pioneered in the 1930s it emerged as a genre in Chicago in the 1940s. It was taken up in many areas of America leading to the development of regional subgenres such as electric Memphis blues and Texas blues. It was adopted in the British blues boom of the 1960s leading to the development of blues-rock. It was a foundation of rock music.
