1. Nationalism (Black)
Many kinds of music have come out on the American stage within the last 100 or so and have had a great impact on it. American music is extremely varied and diverse. ... Dvooak visited the United States for two years (1893-95) and he was the first to advise the American composers to look seriously at the music and cultures around them, especially the music and culture of the Negro. ... The first synthesis of self-conscious poetry and music can be traced to the Black Nationalist Last Poets. ... His vast repertoire of music induced hard-to-find reggae beats and his thundering speaker system, "The...
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