The Roots of Jazz can extend backward over 500 years ago, when black slaves were brought from West Africa to Middle America, by Portuguese, then Spanish, French, Dutch and British merchants. Jazz thus synthesized many cultural influences.
* History of slavery in America - 10-minute narrative
* Field hollers or call-response (plantation songs)
* Song from a Cotton Field - by Bessie Brown --- feel ‘free’ to sing along. African societies emphasized in mass participation. A leading performer called out rhythmic words or phrases; the participating audience would shout a response, in addition to hand-clapping and body-moving.
〖rammers' workchant〗(夯歌 /hānggē/):打夯时一人领唱、众人和唱的歌
A summary (in Chinese) of the
Amazing Grace (2006 movie)
“In 18th-century England, House of Commons member William Wilberforce and his close friend and a future prime minister, William Pitt, begin a lengthy battle to abolish Great Britain's slave trade.....”
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