African-American cultural history

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation.

Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated among African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, and is characterized by the call-and-response pattern, the blues scale, and specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common. Blue notes (or "worried notes"), usually thirds, fifths or sevenths flattened in pit

Hip-hop (also known as rap music or simply rap) is a genre of popular music that emerged in the early 1970s alongside an associated subculture in New York City. The musical style is characterized by the synthesis of a wide range of techniques, but rapping is frequent enough that it has become a defining characteristic. Other key markers of the genre are the disc jockey (DJ), turntablism, scratching, beatboxing, and instrumental tracks. Cultural interchange has always been central to the hip-hop genre; it simultaneously borrows from its social environment while commenting on it.

genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s

genre of popular music

Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century. It deemphasizes melody and chord progressions and focuses on a strong rhythmic groove of a bassline played by an electric bassist and a drum part played by a percussionist, often at slower tempos than other popular music. Funk typically consists of a complex percussive groove with rhythm instruments playing interlocking grooves that create

genre of music emphasizing Christian lyrics

culture including hip hop music, turntablism, breakdancing and graffiti

style of jazz or musical genre based on the rhythmic pulse of music composed of pairs of eighth notes with a longer initial note and a shorter second note

form of slave labor which existed as a legal institution from the early years of the United States

Spirituals (also known as Negro spirituals, African American spirituals, Black spirituals, or spiritual music) is a genre of Christian music that is associated with African Americans, which merged varied African cultural influences with the experiences of being held in bondage in slavery, at first during the transatlantic slave trade and for centuries afterwards, through the domestic slave trade. Spirituals incorporate the "sing songs", work songs, and plantation songs that evolved into the blues and gospel songs in church. In the nineteenth century, the word "spirituals" referred to all these

land which, according to the Hebrew Bible, was promised by God to Abraham and his descendants

Doo-wop (also spelled doowop and doo wop) is a subgenre of rhythm and blues music that originated in African-American communities during the 1940s, mainly in the large cities of the United States, including New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. It features vocal group harmony that carries an engaging melodic line to a simple beat with little or no instrumentation. Lyrics are simple, usually about love, sung by a lead vocal over background vocals, and often featuring, in the bridge, a melodramatically heartfelt recitative add

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American Motion Picture Academy film award

poets' competition

village in United States of America

political and social movement and ideology

music genre

blackface performance

the ethnic cuisine of African Americans originating in the American South from the cuisines of enslaved Africans transported from Africa through the Atlantic slave trade

spiritual practices, traditions and beliefs

fictional rabbit in Uncle Remus folklore

US record label; imprint of Stax Records, Inc.

annual guidebook for African-American roadtrippers, published 1936–1966

vernacular term for an informal establishment featuring music, dancing, gambling, and drinking, primarily operated by African Americans in the southeastern United States

musical group that plays jazz

ethnic group

American negro spiritual song

former United States professional baseball leagues

literary work of the written accounts of enslaved Africans in the Americas

man's suit style of the 1940s

1997 television film directed by Robert Iscove

2004 controversy over indecent exposure on television

noted black scientist within the beliefs of the Nation of Islam

amulet consisting of a flannel bag containing one or more magical items

radical African-American social, political and cultural movement in the United States

venues central to Black American culture in the 1930s-70s

cultural movement started in the USA in the 1960s by African Americans

song

historical type of vocal music

pattern of human activity and symbolism associated with African Americans

african-American carnival organizations in New Orleans

visual arts of the people of African descent in the United States of America

genre of music that presented a stereotype of black people

treatment endured by enslaved people in the US

nickname given to Motown's first headquarters, located at 2648 West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, Michigan

percussive dance in which the participant's entire body is used as an instrument

genre of African-American Christian music

music genre that emerged as a defined musical style in the United States in the early 1950s

unincorporated community in Florida