For the FUNK of It
For the FUNK of It https://blackmusicscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/videoplayback.mp4 Funk music; that groovy, hypnotic music that makes your body move against its will. Funk music; music for the nation. Beginnings Funk music became popular in the mid-1970s. Before then, the most prominent music of African Americans came from the pop soul records of Motown Records in the 1960s. […]
Lights, Camera, Action- Musical Theatre
Lights, Camera, Action! Musical theatre was very segregated. Black people could not engage in it as much as whites because of the racial segregation. White people then started to do “black face”. This is when the whites started to paint there faces black or brown to be portrayed as a black person which is highly […]
Tech? NO!- Techno
Tech? NO! Techno is definitely my least favorite genre. I just can’t get to liking it. Techno music first originated in Detroit Michigan in the late 80’s. Techno combines funk and Jazz music together to form an electric genre popular for dancing. It is believed that the Belleville Three are the originators who made the […]
Boogie on Down- Disco
Boogie on Downnnn Disco became popular in the 1960s-1970s. It quickly overtook funk as the popular music of the times. Its origins were in New York, then it spread to Miami, Chicago, San Francisco, and other big cities. In the early days, it was not played on the radio even though that’s what people wanted […]
Hallejuah!- Gospel
HALLEJUAH! There are two types of gospel music. It can either be African American or Anglo American gospel music. The elements of African American gospel music was brought to the United States from West Africa during the slave trade. African Americans introduced syncopation and the rhythm and stretched out the spiritual music from the Europeans […]
Jazz-y Bell
Jazz-y Bell 😉 Ragtime became popular in 1896-1920 and originating in Mississippi & Missouri. They referenced the songs as coon songs as a racial slur against black people. This music became popular due to its syncopated beats and early jazz and classical music influences. This music genre was typically played in bars, brothels and saloons […]
Riggitty Ragtime
Riggitty Ragtimeeee Ragtime became popular in 1896-1920 and originating in Mississippi & Missouri. They referenced the songs as coon songs as a racial slur against black people. This music became popular due to its syncopated beats and early jazz and classical music influences. This music genre was typically played in bars, brothels and saloons in […]
Set Me Free- Negro Spirituals
Set Me Free- Negro Spirituals Negro spirituals was one of the first genres made. It was created by slaves during slavery to symbolize their home and resistance to slavery. Religion was heavily included in their songs to help get the point across. As slaves, they did not have much to count on because they were beaten […]
JU-BEE-LEE In My Quartet- Jubilee Quartet
m jubilee quartets jubilee 1870 transitional 1920 End Still continued Create Your Own Playlist Fisk 1871 Fisk The first group was organized in 1871 at Fisk University to raise money for their school. LEARN MORE dinwiddie 1898 Dinwiddie They felt it was impairitive to include the word colored in their name of their group “Dinwiddie […]
Feeling Real Blue- Blues
Feeling Real Blue Blues is a mere of music that was made in the 1870s. It was inspired by negro spirituals mostly highlighting the pain and suffering that blacks had to go through. However, some musicians of the blues genre did not express their misery. Instead, some of them highlighted humor and sex. Most blues […]
Review on “Lift Every Voice: Marian Anderson, Florence B. Price And The Sound Of Black Sisterhood”
Marian Anderson Tatyana Lester September 4, 2019 Survey of African American Music SMUS 240-01 Review on “Lift Every Voice: Marian Anderson, Florence B. Price And The Sound Of Black Sisterhood” This article basically explained the history of black woman in the music industry while highlighting black sisterhood. We all know that “The most disrespected woman in […]
What up Folk?- Folk Music
What up Folk- Folk Music Tatyana Lester Surv. Of African American Music SMUS 240-01 28 August 2019 Review on “Folk Music- The Beginning” Folk music was the beginning of a new era for black people. At least that’s a big part of what I took from the article and it was very informative on what folk […]
