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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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