Africa-American people need to espress themselves through the music. They are a culture very musical. From African roots they conserved a powerful rhytm, mean while they learned from Western culture the traditional harmony. In a music class we are studying different examples of African-American music.
The work songs were the songs that the African-American slaves sang in their jobs.
African-American people are also very religious. In their churches they sing spirituals or gospel songs. In these songs they express their joy of believe in God.
Blues is a word that means sadness, nostalgia or malancholy. In African-American music, a blues is a sad, nostalgoc and melancholic song. These songs are profanes, not religious, and they talk about life and problem of African-American people.
Ragtime is a music piece for piano solo. It is characterised by his particular rhytm ( a 'rag' rhytm). Ragtime music in cafes, bars, restaurants and also in cinemas, in the movies without sound.
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