1. Music: Its Purposes in the African American Community Other
Spirituals were an interesting type of song; because it was the first time slave songs were uniform all over America, (the same spirituals used in South Carolina were used in Mississippi). ... During the 1860's, before the Civil War, but after the birth of Negro Spirituals, a new type of slave song appeared in the South. ... The Blues was more personal than spirituals and after the Civil War it became very popular in the South. ... Around the time that blues became popular in the south (1890s), African Americans had mastered the piano. ... Jazz made its way from "New Orleans and worked it...
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