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YouTube video: https://youtu.be/gm3ZmgGxSbY. Listen to song, Voo Doo American, by Alex Foster and Michael LaRue. There is not any competition in the performance of Black American slaves' folk culture today. A man is singing something unclear before... moreYouTube video: https://youtu.be/gm3ZmgGxSbY. Listen to song, Voo Doo American, by Alex Foster and Michael LaRue. There is not any competition in the performance of Black American slaves' folk culture today. A man is singing something unclear before mentioning "troubled water." If any of you can recall, Simon and Garfunkel sang a song, "Bridge over Troubled Waters." I wonder if they took that expression from a slave song. Maybe? Maybe not? I don't presume to know. I am just asking. If any of you know for sure, inform me. I have suggested that Black Americans spark a cultural renaissance focusing on Black American slaves' folk culture and to sell those reproductions of art, music, dance, etc. to libraries and museums for profit and/or for religious worship. One person has already shot down the suggestion as if everything else African-American leaders have been doing on our behalves has been working to our benefit. American Negro Slave Songs is the only album I can find on Freegal about Black American slave music. Maybe there are others. I am just letting Black American slave descendants know that Black American slaves' folk culture is a market with little or no competition. There should be money to be made here. Yes, I believe if something is not broken, we should leave it alone. However, African-American leaders, who are chosen, financed, and elected by whites and immigrants, have decided things for the Black American poor and under their leadership, social conditions for Black Americans in poverty never get better. Things are only getting worse. Most of us have heard the expression, "It is insane to repeat the same things over and over again and expect a different result." Most Black Americans use the same old solutions for the same old problems and expect a different result. Most Black Americans are unwilling to try new solutions for old problems. One has called me a reverse racist against Africans, stupid, uneducated, and ignorant for suggesting new solutions to old problems, because Afrocentrism simply is not working economically, politically, or culturally to the benefit of Black American slave descendants. Let Obama's election as the first half-white, African immigrant president be a testament to how well Afrocentrism is working for Black American slave descendants. Obama won by Black Americans' votes and then, told them they don't deserve reparations for slavery. Perhaps, sparking a Black American renaissance based upon the best aspects of slave culture could change the course of Black Americans' future if we studied it, reproduced it, sold it, and practiced it. There is money to be made in folk arts and culture by selling to libraries and museums. For those of us, who are practicing artists, please consider preserving Black American slave culture in the ways Alex Foster and Michael LaRue has done. I found their music on Freegal through my library and then, I looked it up on YouTube. #blacks, #music, #history, #culture, #slave, #slaves, #slavery, #blackamericanhistorymonth, #blackamerica, #blackamerican, #blackamericans, #folk, #folkmusic, #folkculture, #folkways. less
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Voo-Doo American · Alex Foster · Michel LaRue
American Negro Slave Songs (Digitally Remastered)
℗ 2009 Essential Media Group LLC
Released on: 2009-11-24
Screenplay Author: Traditional
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It took a long time, but I have found what are supposedly traditional Black American slave songs. At least, that is what the folk singers on the album has labeled it: American Negro Slave Songs by Alex Foster and Michael LaRue and Songs of the American... moreIt took a long time, but I have found what are supposedly traditional Black American slave songs. At least, that is what the folk singers on the album has labeled it: American Negro Slave Songs by Alex Foster and Michael LaRue and Songs of the American Negro Slaves by Alex Foster and Michael LaRue. If you have a library card, you can download five songs per week from Freegal from the album, American Negro Slave Songs. Just an idea to those of you, who are musicians, dancers, and artists... Has it ever occurred to you to get your drum circle, dance troupe, and fellow artists together, research, preserve, and reproduce Black American slave songs, dances, instruments, clothing, crafts, and historic foodways to create a market by and for Black Americans, who are hungry for our own history? Any book, DVD, or CD you make about Black American historic culture in slavery will not sell to the masses like pop music, but it can be reviewed and marketed just for libraries where people preserve knowledge and need access to that information for posterity. I have listened to only one album, American Negro Slave Songs, on Freegal, but the singers sound inauthentic as though the ways they were singing or speaking were forced and unnatural. If they turn out to be white or mulatto, none of us can get mad, because at least they made an effort to preserve the slave music of our ancestors in American slavery while so many of us try to cover ourselves with African clothes, African music, African dance, and African languages and turn our backs on our Black American slave heritage as if it is something to be ashamed of. If you are an artist of some kind, please consider preserving Black American slave culture so a white person does not have to do it for us. #blackamericanhistorymonth, #blacks, #music, #history, #folk, #folkmusic, #blackamerica, #blackamerican, #blackamericans, #culture, #folkways, #market, #economics. less
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