AFRICAN AMERICAN
MUSIC
HISTORY
JUNE
African-American Music,
Appreciation Month
Black Music Month
Month of black music
AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC
AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC RELATED TOPICS
THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC
AFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVE MUSIC
HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC LINKS
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN
AFRICAN AMERICAN
MUSIC
African American music (also called black music, formerly known as
race music) is an umbrella term given to a range of music and musical
genres such as afrobeat emerging from or influenced by the culture of
African Americans, who have long constituted a large ethnic minority
of the population of the United States.
They were originally brought to North America to work as enslaved peoples,
bringing with them typically polyrhythmic songs from hundreds of ethnic
groups across West and sub-Saharan Africa.
Historic Traits
Features common to most African American music styles include:
call and response
vocality (or special vocal effects): guttural effects, interpolated vocality,
falsetto, Afro-melismas, lyric improvisation, vocal rhythmization
blue notes
rhythm: syncopation, concrescence, tension, improvisation, percussion,swung note
texture: antiphony, homophony, polyphony, heterophony
harmony: vernacular progressions; complex multi-part harmony, as in spirituals
and barbershop music
African American music
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/African_American_music
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AFRICAN
AMERICAN
MUSIC
RELATED TOPICS
Afrobeat
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Afrobeat
Funk
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Funk
Soul music
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Soul_music
Rhythm and blues
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Rhythm_and_blues
Gospel music
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Gospel_music
Blues
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Blues
Reggae
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Reggae
Ragtime
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Ragtime
Slavery
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Slavery
West Africa
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/West_Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Sub-Saharan_Africa
Polka
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Polka
Improvisation, vocal rhythmization
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Improvisation
Syncopation
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Syncopation
Swing
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Swing
Polyphony, heterophony
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Polyphony
Barbershop music
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Barbershop_music
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SECTION 3
THE
HISTORY
OF
AFRICAN AMERICAN
MUSIC
From the lyrical cries of black street vendors in eighteenth-century
Philadelphia to the infectious dance rhythms of the Motown sound,
African American music has been heard at all times and in every corner
of America.
The History of African American Music
https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/history-african-american-music
African
Music
Encyclopedia
http://africanmusic.org/
The History of
African-American
Folk Music
https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-african-american-folk-music-1322654
History of
African American Music
in 10 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbk8jy_bVNo
African-American
African American
Music
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:African-American_music
African-American
Music Appreciation Month
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Music_Appreciation_Month
Roots of
African American
Music
https://www.si.edu/spotlight/african-american-music/roots-of-african-american-music
Music
in
Africa
https://www.musicinafrica.net/
African
Music
https://www.britannica.com/art/African-music
American Gospel.com
The American Gospel Music Directory
http://americangospel.com/
African American
Music History Timeline
http://originalpeople.org/african-american-music-history-timeline/
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AFRICAN AMERICAN
SLAVE
MUSIC
The music of slavery refutes two common assumptions: first, that the
Middle Passage stripped slaves of their African traditions; and second,
that slaves were so powerless that they had little influence on American
culture at large.
African American music under slavery retained many African elements. There
was a striking continuity in instrumentation. Enslaved Africans either
carried African instruments with them or reconstructed them in the New World.
These included percussive, string, and wind instruments, from drums and banjos
to the balafo (a kind of xylophone), the flute, the musical bow (a stringed
instrument), and the panpipe (a tuned pipe).
African American Slave Music
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=6&smtID=6
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN
AFRICAN AMERICAN
MUSIC
LINKS
African American Gospel
https://www.loc.gov/collections/songs-of-america/articles-and-essays/musical-styles/ritual-and-worship/african-american-gospel
African American Music
https://www.questia.com/library/music-and-performing-arts/music/music-of-specific-countries-and-groups/african-american-music
African American Music
https://www.si.edu/spotlight/african-american-music
African American Music Trails
http://www.africanamericanmusicnc.com/
African-American Sheet Music 1850-1920
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/rpbhtml/aasmhome.html
African American Song
https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200197451/
African American Studies Research Guide: Music
http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/c.php?g=95622&p=624413
Archives of African American Music and Culture
http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc/
The Center for Black Music Research
http://www.colum.edu/CBMR/Resources/
Evolution of African American Music
https://www.dusablemuseum.org/events/evolution-of-african-american-music/
The History of African-American Music
https://ourpastimes.com/the-history-of-african-american-music-12199151.html
History Of African Music Cultural
https://www.ukessays.com/essays/cultural-studies/history-of-african-music-cultural-studies-essay.php
The Importance of Music in the African
Culture:More Than Just a song
http://blogs.longwood.edu/samiuah/2012/04/30/the-importance-of-music-in-the-african-culturemore-than-just-a-song/
Music in the Slave Life
https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/slavery/experience/education/feature.html
Musical Crossroads
https://nmaahc.si.edu/musical-crossroads
National Museum of African American Music NMAAM
https://www.nmaam.org/
Negro Spirituals
http://www.negrospirituals.com/index.html
Shall We Gather at the River
https://www.floridamemory.com/audio/cd3.php
Stax Museum
https://staxmuseum.com/
Traditional African Music
http://artsites.ucsc.edu/igama/2%20-%20encyclopedia/e-legam%20content%20files/c%20-%20faaiscj/01_chapter1.pdf
Vibe
http://www.vibe.com/
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Equal Justice Initiative
https://eji.org/
The Collective Black People Movement (CBPM)
http://cbpm.org/index.html
TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE
https://kwekudee-tripdownmemorylane.blogspot.com/
A Gathering of Readers
https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~gathread/index.html
Malawi Project
http://www.malawiproject.org/
Afro Kids
http://www.afrokids.com/
THE FREEMAN INSTITUTE
http://www.freemaninstitute.com/
Africa Resource
http://www.africaresource.com/
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Real History World Wide
http://www.realhistoryww.com/
History Facts/Science Facts - Quatr.us
http://quatr.us/
African-American Resources
http://www.ushistory.org/more/african-american.htm
African American Studies Library Research Guide
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~savega/aframer.htm
African Music Encyclopedia
http://africanmusic.org/
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AFROPEDEA
http://www.afropedia.org
World Afropedia
http://worldafropedia.com/afropedia/Main_Page
African Indigenous Science and Knowledge Systems
http://www.africahistory.net/
Natives Wiki
http://tribalspedia.wikia.com/wiki/Natives_Wiki
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Islamic Wiki
http://islam.wikia.com/
List of African mythological figures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_mythological_figures
Minority Treaties
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_Treaties
Sexism
http://www.understandingprejudice.org/
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