Unveiling the Untold African Origins of Black Music

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In this episode we look at how African music transcended the Atlantic slave trade and how elements of the African roots of music became infused into the antebellum slave plantations through Black Spirituals, Gospels, slave work songs, and blues becoming the foundation of Black music in America today. Research contributions by Renee Lande OMalley.
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SOURCES:
Fossler-Lussier, Danielle. “The African Diaspora in the United States: Appropriation and Assimilation.” Music on the Move, by DANIELLE FOSLER-LUSSIER, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2020, pp. 68-92. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.9853855.10. Accessed 30 Oct. 2020.
Moore, LeRoy. “The Spiritual: Soul of Black Religion.” Church History, vol. 40, no. 1, 1971, pp. 79-81. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3163108. Accessed 18 Sept. 2020.
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Waterman, Richard A. “‘Hot’ Rhythm in Negro Music.” Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 1, no. 1, 1948, pp. 24-37. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/829662. Accessed 18 Sept. 2020.
Wilson, Olly. “The Significance of the Relationship between Afro-American Music and West African Music.” The Black Perspective in Music, vol. 2, no. 1, 1974, pp. 3-22. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1214144. Accessed 30 Oct. 2020.

[@stephenmaharaj5230]

Thank you for uploading. I had to look up Nat Turner on wiki after the live stream, since I hadn't studied that aspect of American history. Music (and religion) was used in similar ways in the West Indies and the tradition continued into the art form of calypso.

[@AfricanElements]

Awesome! So glad you got a lot out of the live stream. Going to try to do that regularly. I find the both the similarities and variations and black art as it relates to black survival to be fascinating. I'd love to get your feedback on my video on Yoruba influence in Cuban Santeria (kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIGmoXWtirJ5oac)

[@juliemishol7107]

Music is so important to understand culture. Very interesting video. Loved the spirituals.

[@jcarter5521]

Bookmarked for latet 🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@azitsallgood2514]

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[@MikeCharles62]

People please do your own research!!!

[@AfricanElements]

Ummm... How on earth do you think I made this video? Do you think I just randomly started talking? Did you happen to notice the four peer reviewed articles I cited and put full citations for in the description?

[@jcarter5521]

Stop pandering and learn to give context instead of speaking in fragments. You Hotep fools are the biggest problem in our community

[@Kemet3.0]

Story deliverance from slavery in Egypt? Unless you are talking about the invaders that have overtaking a period in Egypt. The ancient Kemet/Egyptians were indigenous black Africans.

[@AfricanElements]

I'm not sure what you're on about? What exactly are you responding to and what does this have to do with the video I posted?

[@grantredman4958]

Why we holding on to a land that don't Care about us. We understand that we come from that land. But, our ancestors was sold in large part by their own people. Although I am not a Dane calloway fan. I believe that he has been lying and taking history truths and twisting to fit his narrative, of being Indian, with no facts. Never the less, their were blacks here in America. And the slaves that were brought here was not in the amount as said in a lot of historical books. The technology was not there in that era. You could not fit that many people on that boat.

[@AfricanElements]

You made a number of claims that I would vehemently challenge but I'm a bit conflicted because I don't feel like this is the space to have that conversation. I'm not understanding how any of the points you raised are related to the video that you are commenting on. For the sake of argument, let's say everything you said was true. How does that in any way diminish the fact that there are clearly African influences in black music that I have demonstrated?

[@JD-ny3vz]

The points you made are completely untrue and false I hate this narrative that's arising that we were the original natives, it's disrespectful to the actual native Americans and our African ancestors. Also where are you getting these facts that there wasn't ships large enough to transport hundreds of people back then? There absolutely was ships of that size existed even before the trans Atlantic slave trade. Also yes some African leaders did participate in the slave trade but your looking at one side did you ever consider the people left in Africa who had loved ones ripped away from. In fact while some African kingdoms did benefit from the slave trade most of west and central Africa was decimated by the slave trade. It created a huge population deficit, pyschological tramau and paranoia that still plagues West and Central Africa today. Please I beg you my brother learn to decipher information, please learn how to find out what reliable sources are and how to tell if the information you are getting is legitimate or not.

[@soulofomen8764]

@@JD-ny3vz Hes not into that he wants to be a Hebrew-Ottoman-Amerukhan with Black European Isrealite religion with Eskimoese language.

[@JD-ny3vz]

@@soulofomen8764 lmaoo facts

[@jcarter5521]

These fools taught me one thing. That even a fool can have follwers if they stay consistent Appreciate your channel brother. You are a hidden gem needed in the black community 💪🏾💪🏾 and more importantly needed got the world because you speak with logic and sound context and not pandering gibberish