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Why were songs sung by enslaved Africans important to their culture?
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connected them to their homeland.
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What was significant about songs sung by enslaved Africans?
The songs contained messages and directions on how to escape.
How did slaves keep their African culture alive in the American colonies?
When the African Slaves were enslaved, they sang slave songs. Some were secret messages, and others helped to preserve their culture. They sang about several different things, and about loved ones or about things they loved, and the songs were passed down from generation to generation.
Why is music important to Africans when they were in America?
Music was so important to Africans because they used to tell they slave life in songs
How did Africans preserve and share their culture after being forced to come to America as slaves?
singing songs and storytelling
Why do you think enslaved African Americans living in the South were able to preserve parts of Africans culture as well as build African American cukture?
Because they were socially segregated from the whites - so the traditonal songs and legends would tend to come down through the generations.
How did enslaved people keep their culture alive?
Some of the slaves sang songs in their language that had secret messages that the Americans didn't know.
How did enslaved Africans develop their own culture in the American colonies?
Enslaved Africans kept African history and culture alive by telling stories.
Why were the spirituals so important to enslaved people?
Spirituals were so important to enslaved people because when the slaves were out on the fields working they would sing spirituals, or religious songs based on bible stories, as a source of strength for the slaves as they tried to deal with the hardship of the slave life
Do Africans sing certain songs for certain occasions?
yes
How did enslaved American resist slavery?
With faiths and hems/songs/gospel /blues
Who writes songs about their culture?
Songwriters write about their culture
How did the 12 bar blues start?
It started when the Africans were sold as slaves to America. The Africans brought their syncopated rhythm from Africa and combined this syncopation with words to produce work songs. As the slaves worked, they sung these songs. In these work songs, the Africans used a concept called call and repeat, the foundation of the twelve bar blues. Eventually, the work songs evolved into what we call the twelve bar blues.
