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Music is the fuel of our souls. Ever since the beginning, in all societies it has been a very important part of culture and history. Music not only relaxes our mind but also provides a complete set of information related to the social and cultural history either concerning to the social politics of that very society or to the religious aspect. Though the American music and songs have been in singing practice since the 16 th C. when the first Europeans and Africans began to enter into North America . On the other hand, the American songs were mostly influence and strongly attached to the musical traditions of the British Isles . This was the colonial, revolutionary as well as federal periods of from the 17 th C to 19 th C. Hymns tunes, ballads, theatre songs, drinking songs all were adopted from the English songs and were very important in the English Music. Where at the same time the African-American slave communities mostly played and sung patriotic songs, basically these were also......

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