'Evolution of African American Music'

'Abstract\n throughout the struggles of slavery, reconstruction, Jim Crow and segregation, African Americans were able to keep on identifiable as a ply by preserving real valuable heathenish elements within their music. The theatrical role of this research paper pass on read and reveal examples of the sustained influence of African culture on the evolution of African American music. Systematically, with all(prenominal) era of social oppression, each coevals of African American musicians, birthed a new-sprung(prenominal) genre of tuneful genius. The correlation amid the melodious root and the African heritage of African Americans, outlined the artistic floor of each musical style. So more than of the musics lyrical subject field embraced change tho also convey the realities of the African Americans feel experiences. The research in this paper will highlight examples of how the anomalous choral techniques within Spirituals and Worksongs, the call-and-response verses of the Blues and the makeshift melodies and harmonies of Jazz ar all clear-cut characteristics of traditional African music.\n\nFrom Whence We Came\nfettered and chained unitedly and corralled on a ship, native Africans watched as the shore of their fatherland disappeared into the horizon with each wave of the ocean. forced to leave croup family and material possessions, they bought with them the star thing that snow-clad Americans could not stamp out: the tidys of home. They still held onto the work of an approaching animal(prenominal)s footsteps, the time of the wind blowing through the trees but more importantly the sound of the tribal thrums. striver owners removed the drum from the daily lives of these original generation African slaves once the fraternity between thrum, dialogue and resistance was made. The incidental ban on African drums and drumming contributed to the slaves cultural freak out by weaken ties to the music that had fill their Africa n existence.[CITATION Sul01 p 22 l 1033 ] The ... '