Traditional African Music

Traditional music in Africa attempts to determine the sole meaning of the word "traditional", and in many ways there is a problem. This term has many meanings and is associated with various implications. Some people, especially Westerners, may actually avoid "tradition" as they believe that this means resistance to modernity. When Westerners think that their tradition is compared with the African tradition, there is a dual standard of ethnicity. Others consider "tradition" as they have always done, and for whatever reason, they must keep maintaining the community, universal balance, relationships with the gods or other goals Hmm.

Over time, Africa's various music customs and traditions are forgotten or integrated with other music traditions. However, slave trade was officially abolished in 1808, but illegally since entering the nineteenth century, African music continues to flow to the new world. Among the southern blacks, one of the most popular forms of early music is the spirit. Whether it is a black version of a white hymn or a song from Africa, the spirit is not an obvious reaction from African-Americans to the situation in the United States. They express their desire to escape from slavery, harm and evil of spiritual and physical freedom, and to release themselves from slavery sufferings.

In the era of slavery, African-American music was separated from white music. The slaves combined their traditional African musical elements with the European musical style to create a unique African American style of music (Sullivan, 2001). These early African American musical styles were largely ignored by white slave owners. Most slaveowners do not pay enough attention to understand that this music is used as a means of communication between slaves or that they are used as a way to laugh a white slave owner Hmm.

As more and more Africans are enslaved in the United States, new format music is called "folk" music. Folk songs made by American African slaves have many of the same characteristics as traditional African music. Along with African traditional music, "rhythm is the most prominent feature of slave music." (Southern 206) Music is also a kind of self-expression because it helps to explain the social, physical and psychological struggles of black people. Usually, subordinate melody is marked with split sound. Therefore, the pitch of the melody shifts from a strong rhythm of music to a weak beat. Indicates that there is inconsistency between melody accent, foot tap or hand beat and pitch is accented. Let's see, for example, a popular slave song "There is no one who has ever talked about this".