Excerpt from PBS documentary History Dectectives Slave Songbook tracing the development of Negro Spirituals and cultural connections to Africa
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Slave Songbook : Origin of the negro Spiritual
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We wouldn’t have music today without this incredible history.
Dag, been wearing bonnets for many generations 😄
This gentleman looks exactly like his mother. God bless you for what you have collected and are giving to us. Wonderful work❤
tey say a Carrol Oneal was one of these women and her asssoc Burnett, and maybe Sherry j Sim and mccloud Bethune
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This is a wonderful history of Negro Spirituals. I read a book on John and Alan Lomax some twenty years ago, so this is very interesting to me.
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Slave songs is the seed of music in this country…
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wondering if anyone knows/can comment:
so these songs were created from enslaved Africans in America. Having come to America with some sort of musical background (as was noted in the video), what would songs have sounded like back in Africa before their enslavement?
Similar with different words? or was this an entirely new genre at the time?
Lucy McKim Garrison was a Philadelphia Quaker. Her grandfather was Micajah Speakman, an active abolishionist and conductor on the Underground Railroad in the early 1800s. Her father-in-law was William Lloyd Garrison, an abolitionist newspaper publisher.
HOLY BIBLE – 2 CORINTHIANS 3:17KJV – Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
JOHN 14:26KJV – 26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
JOHN 4:24KJV – God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
1 JOHN 4:1KJV – 4 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. HEED EPHESIANS 6:10-18KJV!
THE HOLY BIBLE = ARE ONLY CULTURES AND INFLUENCES OF African origin.
NEGRO & BLACK = COLOR = COLONIZED = GIVING UP BIRTHRIGHT = ESSAU = GENESIS 25:31KJV – And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. JOHN 7:24KJV – Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
There are two corner stones of American music. The Slave songs and Appalachian songs. They both found their home in gospel at first. Here they begin to become synonymous. Than bluegrass, the blues Jazz, Country, Rock and roll, motown etc. They are important to the united states. We know some of the songs. One of the oldest called "negro" songs that still remain today and is popular is black betty.
came From Africa❤
This music is the definition of resilience.
Most of the former enslaved blacks were not Africans in 1860. They were Americans.
I hate the classical sound the conductor gave those songs.
Stop all this African s*** we black American
Really interesting, thank you. A section of my dissertation covers Spirituals and blues. Such deep history.