Music of The Civil War

The war between America is complicated. If you want to know about these events, please refer to the textbook. But the music of the day helped us dig down the views and opinions on war, slavery, and many other important issues in our history. Prior to the civil war, American music followed the European roots. During the Civil War, American music began to evolve in its own way. And it was mainly influenced by African American music. This war produced many famous songs.

Other American memory collections of rich civil war materials include: "African-American Odyssey", "African-American music score", "Civil War era music music", "Civil War map "A photograph of carefully selected Civil War", Derek Douglas newspaper, "Abraham Lincoln paper" and "Slavery was born: slave narrative of Federal writer project, 1936-1938". And this is only a part. The American Memory Collection Finder page has a collection of all the materials related to the period. Scroll to the middle of the page and click the period from 1850 to 1899. You will be surprised by what you can find. In America 's memory, 8 million items are included in over 100 theme collections. By visiting the library yourself you can see what was available once.

Through the 1960s, American music culture has undergone a major change. The 1960s was a ten-year US turmoil including Vietnam War, Cold War, and citizenship. Music is closely related to sexual revolution, equal rights, black power movement, feminism, environmental protection. Rock musicians and bands in the late 1950s, such as Elvis Presley, Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, had a great influence in the 1960s, but still had popular music, but making a new rebellious youth It was difficult. Music style In the early and middle of the 1960s, R & B and soul music dominated, later helping groups of girls like The Shirelles and The Angels advertise music, they removed the gospel, Was added.