THE MID CENTURY DECADES

THE MID CENTURY DECADES

THE MID CENTURY DECADES

The melodies of African-Americans are distinguished by a method that fuses African and European elements. The 15 million and more Africans taken as slaves to the New World from the 16th 100 years to the 19th were slashing off from their own cultures. Despite their dispersal, melodies joined them in a way that transcended obstacles of dialect and made-to-order, for demonstration, at festive gatherings. The first African-American place of adoration congregations were formed in the late 18th century. Music for prescribed adoration comprised of psalms and hymns; spirituals were ...