There was a time in the mid 20th century where there was a mass movement of whites and blacks from rural areas to cities. In addition, there was the “white migration” where whites were leaving the south for places like DC, Bakersfield, and Detroit.  Within these movements, people who moved to new places found themselves revolutionizing their styles of music. Whites for example, after moving to DC, found a new form of music in country, and also played with a distinctive guitar style. What I’m wondering is why it took people to moving to different regions of the country to realize that they can create different types of music. It seems like the area they live in/move into have influence on the music that they can create. I think that at this time, the area in which you lived in put a limit on what you were able to produce musically. One thing that was still taking place at the time was racial segregation, so there could’ve been unspoken rules about what one was able to say.