MUS 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Johann Sebastian Bach, Music Of Africa, The Watersons
19 Jan 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Slave ships that brought over people from africa to be slaves. North american slavery worked was that it was a one time payment deal where you paid for the slave once and the rest of their life belongs to you. > children will grow up to be slaves etc. >> europeans also had trouble in north america because 9/10 of them were dying in north america due to the tropical disease of malaria. They were not immune to it, unlike the africans. Therefore even though it"s more expensive to ship over african slaves than europeans, Africans last longer because they are not exposed to the tropical diseases tobacco, cotton, and sugar fields. People from western africa brought to north america to work in the. Bring their own music from western africa, which like the people. Early african music in america: ring shouts, spirituals, blues.
