Vocal music is very traditional to South Africa and it was common, it also had dances involved and social gathers and had complex call-and-response patterns. The film also documented instrumental music where you can see the drum or the flute; It also featured mbaqanga which is a famous South African dance combined with traditional elements of chanting and drumming and the film also featured a lot of maskanda also known as Zulu folk music. ... The film also explored how the music industry works in South Africa and it revealed how Zulu workers practiced their secret war dance rituals against whi...

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In the 16th century, a "Rumba influence" was given by the African slaves and the middle and high class of the Cubans. ... Jive originated in the South Eastern part in the United States, which the African Americans performed competitively. ... Jive is usually performed by African Americans but had a part of Latin American vibe and soul. ... Cha Cha's origin was this religious ritual dance of Wets Africa. ... For example, African-Americans, the indigenous Lundu, high society members in Rio, and Brazilian dancers developed Samba, whereas Rumba came from African slaves and the middle and ...

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Americans musical history is very short when compared to Japan, India, Africa, and China. ... Africa's culture is very different from ours, so is their music. ... People use music for many different things, like for instance dancing. Many people love to dance, but without music you couldn't dance. ...

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CHANGES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE 1920"S In the 1920's, African Americans were going through many changes and were doing many new things that they hadn't even thought about doing before that. ... Not only did African Americans start jazz, but some of the best jazz musicians were African American. ... This is when African American literature, art, music, dance, and social commentary began to flourish in Harlem, which is an area of New York City. ... It was a celebration of the unique culture of African Americans, and gave the world a new view of African American expressio...

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Others talk of its roots in African rhythms, Spanish lyrics, Cuban street bands, Caribbean song and dance styles and Latin American jazz. ... Cuba was the home of diverse styles like son and guajira, and the African rhythms of rumba. ... This kind of Salsa can be fun, especially while dancing - which is what Salsa is all about. ... Salsa is a highly stylized and sophisticated couple dance. ... Salsa became a ballroom dance even thought the authentic salsa is a very spontaneous and intricate music; the dancing is too spicy and lively for monotonous formal routines. ...

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Fads of the Roaring Twenties included Flagpole sitting, the dance marathon, and a Chinese game, Mah-jongg. ... Dance floors shook all over the country with various dances that accompanied the music. ... The Roaring Twenties marked a new generation of American Literature and the recognition of African American writers. ... The Harlem Renaissance, the rebirth of African American culture, was a huge part of the Roaring Twenties. ... Black writers wrote about the experiences of African Americans, the lynchings and other violence that they had to survive after WWI. ...

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Rhythm and blues was popular among the African-American population of America, but until the early 1950's, white people had little interest in rhythm and blues. ... In 1951, Allen Freed, a disc jockey in Cleveland, Ohio teamed up with Leo Mintz, one of Cleveland's largest record store owners, to introduce traditionally African American music to the white population. ... These very dances are where rock and roll truly came alive in the young adults" lives. While teens were on their own social territory, the high energy, hormonal rock music blasted through the speakers as they danced...

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This followed an African tradition of something-called Call and Response. ... In the maroon villages ancient forms of music and dance have survived. ... It is a folk music that blends African rhymes with tunes that can be heard in English Folk songs. The term Mento is used to describe the words, dance steps and the music. ... Ska has a very insistent beat and it's frequented with arm swinging dance. ...

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They used song and dance, which reflected their culture and mythology, in many common rituals and festivals. ... "Afro-Americans came to the Americas from western Africa beginning in 1619" (qtd. ... Such as the Native Americans, the Afro-Americans descended form tribal people, who incorporated singing and dance into their daily activities. "Their songs were especially rhythmic and intricately patterned, as seen in this following response of the primitive African song ( Gusikoff 119)." It is crying/it is crying Siham/ba Ngenyan/go The child of the walker by moonlight Siham/b Ngenyan/go ...

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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 ...

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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. ...

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These events help to show the slow acceptance and influence of African American culture on white America. ... Many large groups of jazz musicians began to play together, after the model of society dance bands. ... Started by African-American intellectuals like Alain Locke, W.E.B. ... Countee Cullen used both African and European images to explore the African roots of black American life. ... Writers McKay, Hughes, and Cullen, actor and musician Paul Robeson, dancer Josephine Baker, and others traveled to Europe and attained a popularity abroad that rivaled or surpassed what they achieved in...

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Jazz music originated in New Orleans in the nineteenth century.2 Slaves around the time all met in an area called the "Congo Square," known today as Louis Armstrong Park where they danced publically simply to enjoy themselves. After research on the documents in the history of African-American music, sketches have shown these people playing percussion instruments with string as well.3 There are many unanswered questions to how it started there, but architects are quite certain about where it has originated from. ... Jazz music in Japan started off in the 1910s and there was a huge gr...

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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. ...

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Of course that seems to be the history of what we now refer to as jazz, however, the influences of what led to those early New Orleans sounds goes way back to tribal African drum beats and European musical structures. ... Playing jazz influenced dance music, was billed as the King of Jazz (History of Jazz 2001). ...

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In the beginning the Sweethearts used the band as a survival strategy against racial segregation but as time passed the International Sweethearts became a popular selling point amongst the African American audiences. They began to be heard on the black theatre circuit, including Apollo in New York, the Paradise in Detroit, and the Howard in Washington D.C, at numberless dance halls and auditoriums through out the United States, at military camps both stateside and in Europe when the band traveled on USO tours, and over the airwaves courtesy Armed Forces Radio broadcasts of "Jubilee,"...

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