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BRITISH AMERICAN FOLK SONG VERSE AS AFRICAN AMERICAN Your name

5 /14 /2008

BRITISH AMERICAN FOLK SONG VERSE AS AFRICAN AMERICAN

British American folk music tradition refers to the music origin is associated with the British and white Americans while the African American music refers to the music that originated with the black Americans

British American folk music was mostly about cases that needed to be pointed out and occupations respectively . Briton songs are about problems that needed to be pointed out for

all to see and reason for the factual basis . American on the other sung about occupations and even criminals . African American music came in a wide variety . The histonces show that the earliest folk songs originated with the blacks as they went about their work in the vast farms or related in their servant quarters . The African American folk music is so vast and varied that no single image is adequate to embrace it all . There is a picture of a slave at work in the field or steering about or even a rhythmic chanting of work songs which gives multi faced picture of different situations

Both cultures display use of daily happenings as the theme in their songs

In both cultures folk music was disseminated through word of mouth as there were no recs then . The composer sang it out as a way of teaching the others and it would spread on to the others through hearing . This affected the music in there with closing memory and change in geography . The music and words were altered to fit the singers . There is no original tone of the folk song and most came in different tunes In both societies the tone depended on who was singing the song

However the British American society acquired print earlier than the African American . In fact so intertwined for centimes is the printed and the over traditions that the notion of a `pole ' and tradition is a disputed issue in this society . Many of their folk songs are known to have in and out of print according to the history of these songs . It is evident that many of British American folk songs even though different in reception to geographical distribution multiple versions have been discovered to strikingly similar in details . However the African American societies print arrived after the civil war . The aftermath of this was brought whites from the north , many of then abolitionists , into direct contact with the black people for the first time . Even before the wars ended , events such as the formation of the black regiments fighting for the unions cause and the famous ' part of loyal experiment ' which teachers and missionaries were recruited from the north - began acquitting northern with the songs of the slaves . The first print accounts of the African American songs appeared in the periodicals of these northern shortly thereafter , the first spiritual appeared in a street music form

African American development of their folk songs...