Their music consisted mostly of beats from all kinds of drums, dancing about to the pure rhythm. ... "It was created in the days of slavery in America, when a black person was still an African in America, not an African-American. ... Music is often combined with speech, dance, and the visual arts to create multimedia performances. ... (African American music). ... Still today there are many African influenced music. ...
Jazz music was a blend of West African and Latin rhythms, African American spirituals and blues, and European harmonies. ... As this happened, white musicians began incorporating jazz into their music, while big bands, both black and white popularized it for dancing. Quite possibly the greatest cultural changes came about with the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement in Harlem, New York, of African American actors, artists, writers, and musicians. ... The Harlem Renaissance was above all a literary movement, when famous novelists such as Claude McKay, and Langston Hughes produced work ...
My impression on the basis of the music has always been portrayed with the African-American race. ... All of the blues artists were of the African-American decent. I observed that the majority of the audience was also African-American. ... His evolution of manufacturing piano music into dance music was a very complex transition from the blend of relaxation to the rhythmic dance style. ... Basing the music on movements by the body and the movement of the instruments created an abstract art for dancing to the music. ...
African spirituals were carried to America among the hearts of oppressed slaves in the 1600s. ... African Spirituals gave root to other genres of music: blues, folk, and in 1950s, rock n roll. ... Hip-Hop is synonymous with the culture of appreciation of Rap, as well as one that produces different danceable beats. ...
This evolution of American music is rooted in the application of African esthetic, notably the use of polyrhythms, an expanded range of tone colors, call and response, and African-derived scales and singing styles. ... Lastly, African singing style and its applied scale had a large impact in America. ... Making use of the brass bands that entertained in city parks, it quickly became a popular dance-based music. ... Yet, jazz also incorporates the other two aspects of the African esthetic. ... Pop music makes use of all the different African-influenced aspects at one time or another. ...
Southern blues was used to express struggles and sorrowful occurrences that were common in the African American communities. ... His past experience as a backup dancer enabled him to skilled at entertaining his audience. ... Their lyrics described situations that were common in African American life. ... The STD and HIV/AIDs rate in the African American community is higher than any other race in the United States. ... In 2011, African Americans were reported to have about 16 times as many gonorrhea cases as their white counterparts. ...
Rock and Roll is a type of dance music that blends rhythms of blues, folk and country. ... Since rock was invented by an African American named Chuck Berry, white people at that time disheartened the music and it could never really spread throughout the world. ...
There are glances all over Europe and in India, and anywhere I go outside Africa. ... But the world participates, too: when I sat down to lunch at the Römerhof restaurant one afternoon-that day, all the customers and staff were white-the music playing overhead was Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody....
