Roots of African American Music - Smithsonian Institution
网页Many of the instruments historically used in African American music, including the banjo and the drum, have antecedents in African musical instruments, and many features common to African American music likewise have roots in African musical traditions, such as the call and response song form and an immersive approach to singing.
Origins & Adaptations — Timeline of African American Music
网页The Timeline of African American Music by Portia K. Maultsby, Ph.D. presents the remarkable diversity of African American music, revealing the unique characteristics of each genre and style, from the earliest folk traditions to present-day popular music.
African-American music - Wikipedia
网页African-American music is a broad term covering a diverse range of musical genres largely developed by African Americans and their culture. Its origins are in musical forms that developed as a result of the enslavement of African Americans prior to …
A timeline of history-making Black music - The Current
网页2019年2月13日 · Charley Pride is the first (and so far last) black artist to win the Country Music Association's most prestigious award, Entertainer of the Year; in 2000, he was the first black inductee at the Country Music Hall of Fame (harmonica player DeFord Bailey is the only other honoree).
African American Music - Smithsonian Institution
网页People of African descent were among the earliest non-indigenous settlers of what would become the United States, and the rich African musical heritage that they carried with them was part of the foundation of a new American musical culture that mixed African traditions with those of Europe and the Americas.
A Timeline of African American Music: 1600 - Present Day
网页The Timeline of African American Music by Portia K. Maultsby, Ph.D. presents the remarkable diversity of African American music, revealing the unique characteristics of each genre and style, from the earliest folk traditions to present-day popular music.
Musical Crossroads: African American Influence on American Music
网页In the late 19th century, African American musicians combined popular songs and marches with African American folk forms like ragtime, sacred music, and the blues to create a new form of heavily syncopated and improvisatory music.
Roots of African American Music
网页Many of the instruments historically used in African American music, including the banjo and the drum, have antecedents in African musical instruments, and many features common to African American music likewise have roots in African musical traditions, such as the call and response song form and an immersive approach to singing.
Timeline of African American Music - The National Endowment …
网页The timeline presents a detailed view of the evolution of African American musical genres over a 400-year span, revealing the unique characteristics of each genre and style alongside in-depth studies of pioneering musicians who created some of America’s most timeless artistic expressions.
Early African-American Music: A Bibliography - Library of …
网页2019年8月28日 · The current guide covers the early history of African-American music scholarship, roughly through the 1970s. It also includes recent works that advance the foundational topics of that early scholarship, such as spirituals, minstrelsy, ragtime, and African-American composers of classical music.