Many European Americans used music like many African Americans as a source of reconnecting with their lineage and discourse to the United States of America. ... Firstly, African Americans have used music as a marker of identifying their blackness and discourse from their homeland of Africa. ... Therefore, identifying black identity and blackness came fought through the method of music. ... These quaint songs were to the slaves more than a method for sending messages; they were a stimulus to courage and a tie to heaven for them. ...

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