"Why would Hart Wand or Gus Haenschen publish or record blues for a white public that suppposedly would not have known much about it? Because the public DID know about it. But standard histories of the growth and development of blues don't say this. Sometime between 1916 and 1926, whites lost contact with the blues. We don't know why. But we must consider that the popularity and spread of blues was to some degree helped along in the early days by white writers and musicians who peddled it to a white public. That whites today love blues and have learned to play it quite was really a rediscovery not a first-time discovery. But that's not how we're taught about it."



white southerners in America knew about southern black american music but white americans outside of the south didn't that's why Blues music was new to them.