South African Music

... reflecting a past, suggesting or establishing a present, and projecting or prophesying a future."" This statement seems to be the most accurate reflection of music's purpose in South African apartheid. Music had always been a primary component of black South Africa's extended fight against racial desegregation and when the white colonial government instituted the Native Lands Act of 1913, forcing the black peasantry off its ... album. Many believe that Simon used the horrific nature of apartheid to draw more attention to him and exploited the music of the country to better himself. But, ...

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... the plantation fascinating and often went to the slave quarters to watch slaves sing and dance. There were two types of slave music in the United States: a secular music that consisted of field hollers, shouts, and moans that used folk tales and folk motifs, and that made use of homemade ... was a good kid with a great heart. Matters became worse, when the killers walked away with no punishment. Most of the young African American children were never safe in the south another case the bombing of a church during a Sunday service, which left four innocent teenage girls dead. The men responsi...

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... used a means to "undermine their oppressors." (Brown). The next era of African American music was called, "Classical African American Music (1860s -1950s)." 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. These songs, "took its most significant features from the calls, cries, and hollers of field slaves and from spirituals." (Floyd ... more personal than spirituals and after the Civil War it became very popular in the South. Much of the Blues, if not all of it, was influenced by the hardships and suffering...

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... post-Civil War years, the congregation style of singing was transformed by the new Pentecostal congregations, also known as Holiness and Sanctified. (5) African American gospel music was a twentieth century phenomenon which evolved through the people that moved from rural communities to urban centers in cities. They left their areas ... group began to work its way up and performed as headliners for the out-of-town Baptist conventions. Mahalia's first and last music lesson took place at the South Side music school, by a tenor, Professor DuBois, a man of local fame. As her lesson progressed...

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... . He needed to annihilation states to set up state governments and rejoin the union rapidly. Radical Republicans in Congress needed to change the south and protect the privileges of African Americans. Lincoln was killed April 14, 1865 by John Wilkes Booth it stunned the nation. A when Vice President Andrew Johnson got to ... and Wright just figured out how to absolutely distinguish him by the ring on his finger, engraved with his dad's initials-"L.T." One artist whose music played a big role in the Civil Rights Movement is Nina Simone. Nina Simone's songs started becoming very popular in...

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... classified into two main style areas, which are Arab North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. There are many unique regional music styles, including a immense influence from the Islamic faith which extends across the savanna region and down the east coast. Within African music, there are many types of percussion instruments, including the drums, clap-sticks, bells, rattles, slit gongs, struck gourds and clay ... of African languages, they possess a number of distinct phonetic and grammatical characteristics, in addition to relations within families. There are four main groups of languages w...

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... to exploring the history of each of these genres of music, this report will identify three African American female music legends, Bessie Smith, Emma Barrett, and Mahalia Jackson. Blues emerged in the period between the end of the civil war, and the beginning of the 20th century. Originating in the fields of the rural south, it became popular after the emancipation of the slaves ... . In this form of music, the singer and composer is one in ... years old. Her last performance was just 10 days prior to her death. The twentieth century saw the development of a specific form of religious so...

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... to exploring the history of each of these genres of music, this report will identify three African American female music legends, Bessie Smith, Emma Barrett, and Mahalia Jackson. Blues emerged in the period between the end of the civil war, and the beginning of the 20th century. Originating in the fields of the rural south, it became popular after the emancipation of the slaves ... . In this form of music, the singer and composer is one in ... years old. Her last performance was just 10 days prior to her death. The twentieth century saw the development of a specific form of religious so...

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... 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 ... , 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 music had its origin in the South. It developed in the African American Baptist churches during the 1930's. By the 1940's and 1950's radio stations all over ... the c...

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