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A Global Vision Through Song: Music of the

Music of the African Diaspora
Music of the African Diaspora

* Black World Music is about an acknowledgement of a culture. Black music is a global culture that has influenced other cultures and nations through music for generations. To many the idea of black music probably doesn’t exist, posing the question, what is black music? Black music embraces thousands-year-old African traditions and the worlds modern evolution, it does not preclude anyone from enjoying or creating it. The roots of jazz, soul, hip-hop, gospel, house, folk and disco music can be traced back to black musicians. Many of the modern genres derived from these classical music genres heavily influenced by black musicians.

Black music is the acknowledgement of a culture that has influenced musical genres around the entire world. For this reason, it is better to describe black music as ‘Black World Music’ because its reach is worldwide, it does not have geographical boundaries, nor does it have racial or ethnicity boundaries.

Black World Music is a culture that is global and has been heavily influenced by other cultures and nations around the world for generations. As mentioned in our article about Black Culture, the term ‘Black’ is a political term to describe a culture that is heavily concentrated within the African Diaspora communities, but is not limited to one ethnicity, race or creed. It is the naturalisation or adoption of the ‘Black’ culture. For many this may be a racial term, as ‘Black’ is often used to reference the skin colour of a person. But this can lead to confusion or debate as many that identify as ‘Black’ may not have a darker skin tone that is often associated with being ‘Black’, but they can still identify themselves as ‘Black’ if that is the culture they identify with. This notion also applies to black music, it is the adoption and acknowledgment of a Black Music culture.

The Culture of Black World Music - Black Education

A Playing For Change https://playingforchange.com/

A better place https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVHOqrw3Jks

Redemption Songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55s3T7VRQSc

Guantanamera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blUSVALW_Z4

Imagine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvFLKyAGzzI

Stand by me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM

Everyday People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g4UWvcZn5U

A change is gonna come https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zDeBIA-vQ8

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