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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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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