African-American music is a broad term covering a diverse range of musical genres largely developed by African Americans and their culture. Its origins...
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language (African-American Vernacular English), philosophy, politics, cuisine, sports, and music and dance. The contribution of African Americans to popular...
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continent. The music and dance of the African diaspora, formed to varying degrees on African musical traditions, include American music like Dixieland...
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African-American culture, also known as Black American culture or Black culture in American English, refers to the cultural expressions of African Americans...
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Spirituals (redirect from African-American spiritual)
spirituals, African American spirituals, Black spirituals, or spiritual music) is a genre of Christian music that is associated with African Americans, which...
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spiritual songs of African American churches and revival meetings, blues became the basis of gospel music. Modern gospel began in African American churches in...
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immigrant Latinos, Puerto Rican music, Hawaiian music and African American music. The music of Irish- and Scottish-Americans will be a special focus, due...
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ISBN 9780939693269. Maultsby, Portia (1997). Africanisms in African-American Music. In A Turbulent Voyage: Readings in African American Studies. San Diego, CA: Collegiate...
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Music of the African diaspora is a sound created, produced, or inspired by Black people, including African music traditions and African popular music...
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African American Music receives $1 million from Regions, Mike Curb foundations". The Tennessean. Retrieved February 25, 2019. "African American music...
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Black Music Appreciation Month is an annual celebration of African-American music in the United States. It was initiated as Black Music Month by President...
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term American folk music encompasses numerous music genres, variously known as traditional music, traditional folk music, contemporary folk music, vernacular...
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African popular music (also styled Afropop, Afro-pop, Afro pop or African pop), can be defined as any African music, regardless of genre, that uses Western...
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of traditional Black gospel). Black Gospel music has been traditionally concerned with the African-American quest for freedom. It has provided both "spiritual...
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An African American is a citizen or resident of the United States who has origins in any of the black populations of Africa. African American-related topics...
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of African American women in rap music videos may have health implications for viewers of such videos. In a survey study, adolescent African American women...
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Dance and music were a big part of African society, and that tradition carried on in the diaspora. African American slaves also used dance and music as part...
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Indigenous music of North America, which includes American Indian music or Native American music, is the music that is used, created or performed by Indigenous...
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West African music incorporates greater use of drums such as the djembe. Contemporary styles of music in West Africa have been influenced by American music...
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and Tyla. Early records of music in South Africa as well as Southern Africa indicate a fusion of cultural traditions: African, European and Asian. Modern...
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predominantly made in South Africa. African popular music – an umbrella term, "afro pop", for all the various, African genres of African Music. Aguinaldo – traditional...
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Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in African-American communities throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It...
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ranging from African-American Vernacular English to a more standard American English. Like all widely spoken language varieties, African-American English shows...
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Jazz (redirect from Jazz music)
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its...
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not directly connected with African–American gospel music, they were adopted by African–Americans as well as white Americans, and Newton's connection with...
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Blues (redirect from Blues music)
Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues has incorporated...
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Rhythm and blues (redirect from Rhythm-and-Blues Music)
of the genre in 2016. "A distinctly African American music drawing from the deep tributaries of African American expressive culture, it is an amalgam...
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all African Americans, nor are all of its speakers African American. As with most English varieties spoken by African Americans, African-American Vernacular...
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used in Cuban music, where it is known as coro-pregón. It derives from African musical elements, both in the secular rumba and in African religious ceremonies...
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Melisma (redirect from Runs (music))
commonly used in Middle Eastern, African, and African American music, Irish sean nós singing, and flamenco. African music infused the blues with melisma...
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