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A Map of the Music

Author(s): Portia K. Maultsby
Source: African American Review, Vol. 29, No. 2, Special Issues on The Music (Summer,
1995), pp. 183-184
Published by: Indiana State University
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 A Map of the Music

The Evoluton of African Ameican Music

AFRICAN
MUSICAL ROOTS

AFRICAN AMERICAN AFRICAN AMERICAN SECULAR TRADITIONS

SACRED TRADITIONS SECULAR TRADITIONS S INSTRUMENTA

1600s WORK SONGS, FIELD/STREET GAME SONGS, SYNCOPATED 1600s

CALLS, PROTEST SONGS SOCIAL SONGS DANCE MUSIC
1700s 1700s

1800s FOLK SPIRITUALS |_ 1800s

1870s
SPIRITUALS | 1870s

1880s RURAL BLUS RAGTIME 1880s

1890s FOLK GOSPEL SYNCOPATED BRASS BANDS 1890s

1900S GOSPEL HYMN VAUDEVILLE BOOGIE 190s

BLUES WOOGIE NEW ORLEANS-STYLED JAZZ190
1910S 1910s

1920s FOLK JUBILEE EARLY JAZZ BANDS| 1920s

ITRADllQONAL UARTGOSPELTS
1930s GOSPEL QUARTETS SWING BANDS 1930s

1940s GOSPEL GROUPS URBANBLUE RHYHM & BLUES BEBOP 1940s

1950s GOSPEL CHOIRS ROCK 'N' ROLL HARD BP OOL 1950s

1960s ISSOULJAZZ MO 960

1970s CONTEMPORARY DIC RAP/HIP-O FUNK JAZZ FUSION 1970s

1980s 1990s

1990s ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~SWING NEW JAZZ 1990s

3 1992 Portia K. Maultsby, Ph.D.

Revised 1995
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T he African American musical tradition is a form of individual and group

expression that embraces many different genres and a complex of subdivisions.

African American Review, Volume 29, Number 2

? 1992, 1995 Portia K. Maull t s b y 1 8 3

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 Each genre, which is associated with a
specific function, social context, and
historical period, mirrors four centuries
of cultural evolution and social change.
As such, African American music
translates everyday experiences into
living sound, recording the responses
of African Americans to their position
as a marginalized group in society.
African American music, therefore,
documents the dynamic nature of
African American culture and the
expression of a black cultural identity
and a black world view. "The
Evolution of African American Music"
flow chart illustrates the existence of
various genres as part of a musical con-
tinuum of African origin, highlighting
patterns of evolution.

Ed's. Note 'The Evolution of African American Music" is the work of Portia K. Maultsby, who is Professor of
Afro-Amencan Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington. A full-color version of the flow chart can be
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of Music Research International, P. 0. Box 6042, Bloomington, IN 47407. Call (812) 333-0938 for
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