Negro music in America; 7

Negro music and American. Negro music in America are an exploration of it and its impact on American culture. Here is your host for the series Tony look at the box as we go back through the years of American Negro music. We find its earliest traditions along the East Coast of the United States in Virginia and the Carolinas and Georgia. Documents at Williamsburg Virginia show the negroes were prominent in the musical life of that community from the beginning of the 18th century. It is certain that in that area the negro reinvented the African instrument called the banjo or the American Negro banjo or was it three or four stringed instrument without frets with a good resonator and a possum or a raccoon skinhead. Thomas Jefferson noted in his writings that this was a most common instrument among Virginia niggers in his day and significantly enough one of the first black face minstrel troupes called themselves

the Virginia minstrels. Some years ago in 1959 and 60 recorded work church music the bright light quartet of Virginia is composed of four young fishermen who go out with a fleet and still head into the company of a sea shanty such as Sweet Rosie. I won't be home.

Don't you want to go home. Don't you want to go home when you're next. Another beautiful work shitty that eases labor in the fishing fleet is sung for us again by the bright light quartet. Hey hey honey. I've got a small inborn in God. God. I'm crying.

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Leg jelly. A leg. Jeb Bush a. Gem going on to see. This modern boy hev done this morning by. Phone I'm going to see the sun bowls. On Sunday the bright lights sing spirituals in the style of the 20s and the 30s in country churches. Here they sing for the prayer. Go

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you know my gone cold and moanin up in about day will now when my guard said to me don't you go I don't want to be out in the pale we start a movement in the Spirit of God man somewhat dominant up right now we know now much they're going to go in Iraq and them shall come come and those Muslims out there are going to own. Trouble When my way is a spiritual recorded by Mr Lomax in the little Baptist church in Norfolk Virginia. He invited a group of neighborhood girls in to listen when the peerless four started to sing.

The girls clapped and stamped out a rhythm for the fearless four in their electric guitar and drums just took off and flew. You're really in for a treat when you hear trouble in life. So yes it is. Next week we will bring to you music from the George u.s.a.

Some. Negro music in America with Tony look and Bach resided transcribed by the SEIU a radio network. Known as again next week as we continue our exploration of the negro and American music. This program was distributed by national educational radio. This is national educational radio network.