Music+Of+Slaves

1. Music of slaves
 * __What I already know__**:
 * Who?** Slaves during the Civil War.
 * What?** The Impact their music had on American music.
 * Where?** On plantaions in the South
 * When?** During the Civil War.
 * Why?** Slaves sung what they felt.
 * How?** I know it did affect American must I just dont know how yet.

Why? Why were they singing? What made them sing? How? How did they all **know the songs** It created a new kind of music throughout history. __**My** **Research strategey:**__
 * __What I want to know:__**
 * Who?** Who started the songs?
 * What?** What kinds of songs were they?
 * Where?** **Did this happen in just the South?**
 * When?** When did the music start?
 * How Did This impact American Music?**
 * Who:** I will look it up on the web and pick up a resourceful book for my topic.
 * What:** Books, websites, and online databases.
 * When:** During class and at home if needed
 * Where:** The library
 * How:** I will use my thesis statement and research questions.
 * Key Words for searching:** **Slaves and their music, music of slaves, impact slaves had on americans**

DRAFT The influence of black music on not only americans, but the entire culture of the world, is not calculable.I am learning more about the affect on music. but i would like to know more about the affect on american music specificaly.(Haskins)

"When Africans arrived in the New World as indentured servants and slaves in the 17th and 18th centuries, they were entering an alien world."The way the slaves felt was an reasons for singing. I would like to learn more about their music and how it affected american culture.(Early)

The white American has charged the Negro American with being without past or tradition (something which strikes the white man with a nameless horror), just as he himself has been so charged by European and American critics with a nostalgia for the stability once typical of European cultures."I want to know more about how the music was started.(Early)

Spirituals made a deep impact on americans. The slaves sang about freedom and liberation. Many of their spitiuals were new versions of old spirituals, that were revised and updated with new lyrics.I wonder more about the songs they sang. Aparrently some of the spirituals were used more than once. It is kind of like our music now, there are remixes and many different versions of one song.(Freedom songs from civil rights movement)

The music they sung was based on the afro- american folk songs. The spirituals show the different types of techniques they used for the songs. Lyrics were used more than once and in many different ways. The spirituals originated from afro-americans, just like our music is a combination of european music. I would like to learn more about the impact the music had on american music.(Freedom songs)

Today, slave music is usually grouped in three major categories: Religious, Work, and "Recreational" songs. Each type adapted elements of African and European musical traditions and shaped the development of a wide range of music, including gospel, jazz, and blues. I need to start looking more in to the book i got, and get some more info. I would like to know more about spiriuals evolving into jazz.(Slavery)

" Blues, jazz, rock n' roll - all these musical forms originated with balcks. And white performers and groups- from Benny Goodman to Frank Sinatra to the Beatles to Rod Stewart to Boy George- have said that they owe their biggest debt to black music."Big time Americans give their debt to black music. I would like to know more about jazz and its culture.(Haskins)

Its not just the music that was affected by african americans, food, clothing, and languge were also affected.The slaves made a big impact on American culture. I want to learn more about the specific music.(Early)

"This is a history of black music in America through the lives of black people who made it. It focuses on the innovators and pioneers; on the black people who showed they could make white music ' thus opening up new paths for black performers in general' as well as on the black people who made black music. it is as much a history of obstacles overcome as of the blossoming and branching out of new musical forms."Black people showed whites that they are people too and can affect and change cultures. The blacks were not meant to be slaves, they were meant to be people.(Haskins)
 * || Jazz is a more sophisticated music than other kinds. It has its own way of sounding, and playing. Throughout many years, jazz has evolved and changed into something new.Jazz Was started by slaves. It has carried on in its tradition throughout ages. Want to know more about the beggining of jazz.(Early) ||

code code Works Cited code Early, Gerald. "Slavery." //JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns//. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Mar. 2010. code code . code code "Freedom Songs of the Civil Rights Movement: Slave Spirituals Revived." //sweet Chariot//. University of code code Denver, 2004. Web. 29 Mar. 2010. . code code Haskins, James. //Black Music In America//. New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1987. Print. code code Henry, Tanu T. "Footsteps." //Gale Power Search//. March - April 2002, Mar. 2002. Web. 26 Mar. 2010. code code "Slavery And The Making Of America." //Music in Slave Life//. PBS, 2004. Web. 14 Apr. 2010. code code []. code

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