Roots of African American Music - Smithsonian Institution
网页Roots of African American Music. African American music cannot be separated from the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the forced transportation of millions of African people across the Atlantic who were then enslaved. The cultures from which they were torn and the conditions into which they were forced both contributed to the sounds of African ...
Origins & Adaptations — Timeline of African American Music
网页The Timeline of African American Music by Portia K. Maultsby, Ph.D. presents the remarkable diversity of African American music, revealing the unique characteristics of each genre and style, from the earliest folk traditions to present-day popular music.
Black History and Folk Music, a story - African American Registry
网页As far back as Black Africans in North American cultural history stretches, it has been accompanied by a soundtrack of folk music. Some of the most timeless songs of empowerment and perseverance come from the American slaves and their communities of forced immigrants held in bondage throughout the Antebellum South.
African-American music - Wikipedia
网页African-American music is a broad term covering a diverse range of musical genres largely developed by African Americans and their culture. Its origins are in musical forms that developed as a result of the enslavement of African Americans prior to …
Classic African-American Ballads from Smithsonian Folkways
网页Classic African-American Ballads is a sampling of an important, historic, and engaging slice of America's Black music heritage. The heyday of the Black ballad tradition (1890-1920) left a lasting strain of creativity and a monument to African American life of the time.
11 Important Black Folk Music Artists - LiveAbout
网页2019年3月1日 — Black artists have played an enormous part in moving forward the history of American folk music, from the slave spirituals to early field recordings, songs of the civil rights and feminist movements, story songs, gospel songs, protest songs, and beyond. These artists have influenced and inspired generations of …
African American Music - Smithsonian Institution
网页Their work songs, dance tunes, and religious music—and the syncopated, swung, remixed, rocked, and rapped music of their descendants—would become the lingua franca of American music, eventually influencing Americans of all racial and ethnic backgrounds. The music of African Americans is one of the most …
Celebrating Black Music Month | National Museum of African American ...
网页African American folk music links back to African cultural traditions. Stemming from field hollers, work chants and game songs, folk music bursts with social commentary. Popular folk protest music spread in the 1960s, and its influence is still found within hip-hop today.
An Exploration of African American Folk Music
网页Songs that started as expressions of the early black struggle in America, such as “We Shall Overcome” and “Amazing Grace”, have become anthems for the plights of all marginalized communities. African American folk music has touched the lives of the oppressed all over, and empowered them to make change.
Roots of African American Music
网页Many of the instruments historically used in African American music, including the banjo and the drum, have antecedents in African musical instruments, and many features common to African American music likewise have roots in African musical traditions, such as the call and response song form and an immersive approach to singing.