  Blacks tend to abundon whatever they have created when ever whitey adapts it. Rock and roll is good example, Blues and jazz have almost become white music form save for a few blacks keeping it alive in black community. Wait for next thing after hip hop. It will be great!   The first known blues song was actually by a White guy, the term the Blues is a White phrase,did you know that? Even the wikipedia doesen't BS about that part.... And Rock N' Roll was in no way CREATED by Blacks in case you haven't been paying attention, it owes more to Folk, Country and honky tonk/boogie woogie styles as I keep telling you. Oh, and also the White blues, you know the blues the White man was playing down in the honky tonks and juke joints before the blacks started making their Black Blues.     Hart A. Wand was an early white American  blues  musician and composer from  Oklahoma City . Little is known about Wand, however, his Dallas Blues is sometimes cited as the first published blues.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart_A._Wand     Etymology   The phrase the blues is a reference to the  the blue devils , meaning 'down' spirits, depression and sadness. An early reference to the blues can be found in  George Colman's farce   Blue devils, a farce in one act  (1798). [1]  Later during the 19th century, the phrase was used as a  euphemism  for  delirium tremens  and the  police , and was not uncommon in letters from homesick Civil War soldiers.   Though the use of the phrase in  African American music  may be older, it has been attested to since 1912, when Hart Wand's Dallas Blues became the first copyrighted Blues composition. [2] [3]  In lyrics the phrase is often used to describe a  depressed mood . [4]