Music Evolution
Music Evolution
Oh, darkeys hab ye heerd it, hab ye heerd de joyful news?
Uncle Abram's' gwine to free us, and he'll send us where we chuse,
For de Jubilee is comin' don't ye sniff it in de air!
And sixty-three is the Jubilee for de darkeys eb'ry where! (Greene)
Black music throughout the past couple of centuries has changed in many ways. It started out as a basic way to communicate, and then evolved into complex rhythms found in many different genres. Since African-Americans have been in North America, they have brought a whole new meaning to European traditional music (Southern). It has impacted numerous genres such as blues, big band, jazz, funk, and rap. What change in society caused the evolution of black music?
Black music had first started out as Spirituals. Spirituals were old black hymns that were sung all day and all night. For the most part the hymns were about freedom, and how blacks needed their "Moses" to come and free them from their hardships. These songs......
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