ENGL 381 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5.2: African-American Music, Artistdirect, The Coon
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American negro music is a natural, highly stylized version of life for black people in. America: chronicles the negro movement, african slave to american slave. Blues lyrics has made a larger a ect of western culture than all other literary contributions made me black artist: direct, instinctive. A type of music native to the american negro population: the turn from african negroes to american negroes. Two versions of the american negro: the coon shout version, jazz version. Both versions accurate: informed with legitimacy. Emotional concern: not seen in negro literature or middlebrow literature. Only abstract pieces of african culture survived slavery: all concrete pieces we destroyed. American negroes are responsible for creating american art: no longer african art. Don"t connect to african routes because now it is hip" to do so. The negro american experience has become a part of the american experience. : the experience should be the only catalyst for the negro artist.
