Black music

Black music is music created, produced, or inspired by black people, people of African descent, including African music traditions and African popular music as well as the music genres of the African diaspora, including Afro-Caribbean music, Afro-Latino music, Afro-Brazilian music and African American music. These genres include negro spiritual,[1] gospel, rumba, blues,[2] bomba, jazz, salsa, R&B, samba, calypso, soul, cumbia, funk, ska, reggae,[3] dub reggae, house, detroit techno, hip hop, gqom, afrobeat, and others.

For the Chocolate Genius album, see Black Music (album). For the British magazine, see Black Music (magazine). For the heavy metal subgenre, see Black metal.

Black music in Britain received its first serious journalistic coverage in Black Music magazine (1973–1984).

Background

Many genres of music originate from communities that have visible roots in Africa. In North America, it was a way that the early slaves could express themselves and communicate when they were being forcibly relocated and when there were restrictions on what cultural activities they could pursue. In a time where their world was being turned upside down, music served as an escape and form of communication/expression for early black communities. The ability of music to act as a binding factor provides all culture's with a strong sense of connectivity. Loosely termed black music with no specificity with regards to genre as a definition in the United States started with its roots embodied in slave spirituals and gospel music[4] with roots in the black.

The term for many coming from places of "black" origin can be perceived in a derogatory manner by cultures who see the term as a blurring of lines which ignores the true roots of certain peoples and their specific traditions. To refer to musical genres with strong African-American influence, such as hip hop music, is very limited in scope and is not adopted by academic institutions as a true category.

Genres
Main article: List of musical genres of the African diaspora
  • French west indies

See also

References
  1. "Negro Spiritual Singers". New Deal Network. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  2. Kunzler's dictionary of jazz provides two separate entries: "blues", and the "blues form", a widespread musical form (p. 131). Kunzler, Martin (1988). Jazz-Lexicon. Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag.
  3. Stephen Davis. "Reggae." Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. Web.16. 30 January 2020.
  4. "Gospel History Timeline". University of Southern California. Archived from the original on September 5, 2012. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
  5. Pecknold, D. (Ed.). (2013). Hidden in the mix: the African American presence in country music. Duke University Press.

Further reading
  • Spencer, Jon Michael. Black hymnody: a hymnological history of the African-American church (1992)
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