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African American music — (also called black music) is an umbrella term given to a range of music and musical genres emerging from or influenced by the culture of African Americans, who have long constituted a large ethnic minority of the population of the United States.… … Wikipedia
African-American music — The Banjo Lesson, by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1893. Oil on canvas, 49″ × 35½″. Hampton University Museum. African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of musics and musical genres emerging from or influenced by the culture of African… … Wikipedia
Museum of African American Music — The Museum of African American Music is a Smithsonian affiliated museum being built in Newark, New Jersey.[1] The museum is the center of a larger project to revitilize The Coast/Lincoln Park district in Newark. The museum will feature various… … Wikipedia
African American culture — in the United States refers to the cultural contributions of African ethnic groups to the culture of the United States, either as part of or distinct from American culture. The distinct identity of African American culture is rooted in the… … Wikipedia
African American — African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa.cite web |url=http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01 5.pdf |first=Jesse |last=McKinnon… … Wikipedia
African American art — is a broad term describing the visual arts of the American black community. Influenced by various cultural traditions, including those of Africa, Europe and the Americas, traditional African American art forms include the range of plastic arts,… … Wikipedia
African American musical theater — Early History= Before the late 1890s, the image portrayed of African Americans on Broadway was a secondhand vision of black life created by European American performers. [Woll, 1.] Stereotyped coon songs were popular, and blackface was… … Wikipedia
African popular music — Introduction body of music that emerged in Africa in the 1960s, mixing indigenous influences with those of Western popular music. By the 1980s the audience for African popular music had expanded to include Western listeners. In common … Universalium
African American dance — African American dances in the vernacular tradition (academically known as African American vernacular dance ) are those dances which have developed within African American communities in everyday spaces, rather than in dance studios, schools or… … Wikipedia
African American literature — is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. The genre traces its origins to the works of such late 18th century writers as Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano, reaching early high points with slave… … Wikipedia
