African-American music
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 182 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5109-2376-6
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! African-American music is an umbrella term given to a range of musics and musical genres emerging from or influenced by the culture of African Americans, who have long constituted a large and significant ethnic minority of the population of the United States. Many of their ancestors were originally brought to North America to work as enslaved peoples, bringing with them polyrhythmic songs from hundreds of black African ethnic groups across West and sub-Saharan Africa. With the convergence in the United States of peoples from different regions, multiple cultural traditions merged with influences from polka, waltzes and other European music. Later periods saw considerable innovation and change. African-American genres have been highly influential across socio-economic and racial groupings internationally, and has also enjoyed popularity on a global level. African-American music and all aspects of African American culture are celebrated during...
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