... tonight. A unique kind of song grew from the experience of the Africans brought to America in slavery. That unique song was the African American spiritual. The old spirituals had no known composers and were not written down. They passed from generation to generation of singers and are still ... lost love. The tempos of these songs are usually slow. Some influential African American blues artists were W.C. Handy (the father of the blues), Ma Rainey, and Bessie Smith just to name a few of the early pioneers. Another style of music that has the black influence is gospel music. Gospel ... ...

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... pop culture but also in terms of the values and perspectives passed on through the music. In tracing the music, he brilliantly illuminates the influence of African Americans on American culture and history. The White Negro is a 9,000 word essay by Norman Mailer that recorded a number of young white people in the 1920's, 1930's and 1940's who liked jazz and swing ... " adopted black clothing styles, black jive language, and black music. They mainly associated with black people, distancing themselves from white society. One of the early figures in the white negro phenomenon was jazz music...

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... Hop and Rap has been an influence in my life as well as many people I know. I have chosen these genres to take a look into their history as well as how it has developed into what we are listening today. Many people have said that by listening to these types of music, it influences ... certain topic. Each and every audience members should be able to distinguish the rights and wrongs of each topic. There were many influences of rap music as early as the 1940's but it never really started developing in the 1970's. Urban DJ's started to manipulate records to make scratching rhythms and other...

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... Hop and Rap has been an influence in my life as well as many people I know. I have chosen these genres to take a look into their history as well as how it has developed into what we are listening today. Many people have said that by listening to these types of music, it influences ... certain topic. Each and every audience members should be able to distinguish the rights and wrongs of each topic. There were many influences of rap music as early as the 1940's but it never really started developing in the 1970's. Urban DJ's started to manipulate records to make scratching rhythms and other...

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... Hop and Rap has been an influence in my life as well as many people I know. I have chosen these genres to take a look into their history as well as how it has developed into what we are listening today. Many people have said that by listening to these types of music, it influences ... certain topic. Each and every audience members should be able to distinguish the rights and wrongs of each topic. There were many influences of rap music as early as the 1940's but it never really started developing in the 1970's. Urban DJ's started to manipulate records to make scratching rhythms and other...

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... music consisted mainly of wind and string melodies punctuated by hand clapping, xylophones, and drum beats. Along those lines, an early type of slave music was the spiritual, which has its roots in Protestant hymns taught to the slaves. Spirituals were "long thought ... it would be a long time yet before Black art could be fully appreciated, or even accepted as mainstream. Science America's earliest African-American scientists and inventors are largely unknown -- their contributions to America buried in anonymity...While historians increasingly recognize that blacks had a significant imp...

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... a similar band goes mainstream or is seen on MTV, people will start to dress and act like them. Music has had a profound impact on history. Teenagers all around the world are constantly looking for new material and experimenting with different styles of music. By going to local concerts, you will see ... are gaining popularity. These bands are then outcast's of the underground. The development of the underground came about through people, mostly in their late teens or early twenties, who have no money or are struggling for shows, fans, and respect. These people took to playing out their ...

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Gospel music is generally being categorized as Afro-American or Black music. It was originated from folk churches in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. One of the most famous musician was Thomas Dorsey, also known as "Father of Gospel Music", was born in 1899 and passed away during the early 1990's. Dorsey and Bessie Smit, one of the famous blues singers during ... and singers of gospel music, Dorsey founded the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses in 1932, an organization that still exists today." (source: http://www.handsofhope.org.uk/ch_history.html) Thomas Dorsey...

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... forever leaving its mark in history. The 1960's created a lot of drama and excitement which, in turn, left a big impression on people of that time and is still affecting social and cultural society today. There were several events in the 1960's that caused a change in American social and culture society. The ... began to enhance and change the way we listen to music and many artists of the time would not only change music but influence American culture. Early in the decade, only a small majority of the people had stereo equipment and all of the records were still the shiny vinyl discs ....

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... history of music we can see composers of all periods of time who truly made a difference. Classical and Romantic composers such as Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, Stravinsky, and Mozart are some of the first that come to mind. As music traveled from Europe to the Americas, it was not until the early 1900's that Northern America would raise up it's first American ... composer to break through the music scene in a whole new fashion. George Girshwin was the man to take music to a whole new level that would even be apart of what fueled such a radical American movement known in history ... as the R...

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Jamaica According to the history of Jamaica, the slaves from Africa brought over drums called "BURRU" which were used in an arrangement called talking drums. These were used during Jonkanoo celebrations, ... of music called Mento. MENTO Mento was the popular music in Jamaica before ska, rocksteady and reggae. It was an established style in both rural and urban areas as early as the turn of the 20th century. Mento bands usually include one or more of the following: banjo, guitar, a bass lamellophone called a rumba box, and maracas. ... down through generations. SKA and ROCK STEADY In the mid...

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... , most of which I had heard many times before, such as "Johnny B. Good," "Peggy Sue," and "That"ll Be the Day." I find this music so interesting because many songs from the early 50's and 60's are too outdated for me, and they are almost boring because I am used to songs full of effects. Holly's music is definitely an exception. His music keeps ... surprisingly good considering when these songs were recorded. These are the aspects that make Buddy Holly distinctly American. He was a pioneer just like so many before him. The things that he sings about are so American, that they are often t...

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... This genre has direct links to the cover art from LP records in the 1960's and 1970's, and cassette tapes from in the 1970's and early 1980's. As compact discs became the listening choice for music lovers in the 1980's and 1990's, compact disc covers became an important tool for record ... different from other genres of music such as bluegrass, country and western and classical music. Urban cities discourse: A discourse in the knowledge of North American urban cities would also be helpful to the reader in order to make meaning from this text. To recognize that this text is based on an ...

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... an idiomatic shift every time its creative center has shifted geographically" (Bayles, 25). He explains that the early part of the twentieth century could be what Pleasants labels "the Afro-American epoch." The influence of black Americans on music in the twentieth century is filled with creativity and art. ... However, Bloom insists that "rock music has risen to its current heights in the education of the young on the ashes of classical music" (Bloom 50). This is where Bayles chooses to focus on the fact that there is a gap in musical history ... , which she fills with Pleasant's theori...

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... she lived; and why is it seemingly impossible to recognize and identify a piece of her music? Throughout history, women composers scarcely existed, and the ones that did, were often forgotten over time. From the early centuries to the present, music by woman composers have changed in many ways. The music by composers such ... during a time when this type of work for women was extremely rare (Salm, 1). It is said that Caccini was the first famous woman composer known to history (Mann, 27). She was an Italian composer born in 1587 and died about 1640. This composer came from a family of ta...

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... she lived; and why is it seemingly impossible to recognize and identify a piece of her music? Throughout history, women composers scarcely existed, and the ones that did, were often forgotten over time. From the early centuries to the present, music by woman composers have changed in many ways. The music by composers such ... during a time when this type of work for women was extremely rare (Salm, 1). It is said that Caccini was the first famous woman composer known to history (Mann, 27). She was an Italian composer born in 1587 and died about 1640. This composer came from a family of ta...

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... the home bugler, and finally cornet. He would play to Taps to wake the boys up and for them to eat. He basically learned marches and other ensemble music. The Early Years After being released from the Waif's home at age fourteen, Louis worked selling papers, unloading boats, and selling coal from a horse cart. On his free time he would listen ... World, which he recorded in 1968 topping the charts. He later died in July 1970, a wealthy and much loved man. Important to Our Country Louis Armstrong was a phenomenal person for American History because he brought so much joy to people in the...

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... . The Island is also the worlds leading rum producer. Eighty-percent of rum consumed in the United States is from Puerto Rico. According to Jan Rogozinski the author of A Brief History Of The Caribbean " Sugar was brought from Europe to the Caribbean with the very first Spanish epedition. Columbus carrided cane from the Canaries to Hispaniola in 1493." ( 51 ) Rum is ... from sugarcane, which didn't exist in the Caribbean before Christopher Columbus first voyage to the Islands. Historians believe that Ponce de Leon introduced the drink to Puerto Rico in the early 1500's during his governo...

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