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Musical Crossroads, the permanent music exhibition at the NMAAHC, explores this history through the lens of five central themes: Roots in Africa, Hybridization, Agency and Identity, Mass Media & Entertainment, and Global Impact and Influence. The most distinctive features of African-American musical traditions can be traced back in some form or ...
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Making American Music - A-Tisket, A-Tasket. Linda Griffiths...
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Music from Around the World Discover Smithsonian resources...
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The Smithsonian Chamber Music Society brings the...
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The Smithsonian holds incredibly diverse music-related...
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African American Music. Describing the African-American...
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Feb 21, 2021 · Sidney Madden is a co-host of NPR's podcast "Louder Than a Riot," which focuses on the intersections of music and culture. Her expertise as a music journalist gives a glance into how Black culture ...
African American Music. Describing the African-American influence on American music in all of its glory an d variety is an intimidating—if not impossible—task. African American influences are so fundamental to American music that there would be no American music without them. People of African descent were among the earliest non-indigenous ...
African Origins and Adaptations in African American Music. 2. By Portia K. Maultsby, Ph.D. / Earl Stewart, Ph.D. “In Africa, music is central to all aspects of social life in multifarious ways. From lullabies to life-cycle events; from storytelling and games to social criticism; from agricultural pursuits, fishing, hunting, to kingship; from ...
Many of the instruments historically used in African American music, including the banjo and the drum, have antecedents in African musical instruments, and many features common to African American music likewise have roots in African musical traditions, such as the call and response song form and an immersive approach to singing. Slaves' lives ...
From the first arrival of Africans in America, traditional tribal music strongly influenced the music of American blacks. As late as 1843, a weekly gathering in New Orleans' Place Congo drew ...
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Feb 13, 2019 · 1925. Louis Armstrong records the first of a series of singles for Okeh Records with his Hot Five and Hot Seven combos. The trumpeter's take on the songs, including "Saint James Infirmary," "Basin Street Blues," and "Muskrat Ramble," "helped to change the course of American music," as writer Charles Hiroshi Garrett noted in a review of a 2000 collection of the complete recordings.
