1. Music: Its Purposes in the African American Community Other
First, let us look at the history of the first era of African American music, "Slave music (1600s -1860s)." During the 1600s to the early 1700s, the majority of the music was mainly instrumental accompanied by dancing and chanting. ... In the late 1700s, slaves began to learn how to play various European instruments (like the piano). ... In the late 1800s, enslavers want to covert slave to Christians and replace work songs and folk songs, with evangelical hymns This failed, but the negro spiritual was born; which were folk songs as "composition[s] performed with religious expression." ... La...
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