![]() ![]() This selection of recordings is only an introduction to the wealth of music from this area, but the archive includes the documentary recordings of the music I recorded on my travels in these areas as I searched for roots of the blues and other musical forms I knew from the United States. What is known is the general area the slaves came from - West Africa, roughly from Senegal to Angola, and inland in the northern regions to the Niger basin in what is now Mali. Slaves were marched thousands of miles from their tribal areas before they were placed on the ships, and when they arrived in the Western Hemisphere there was generally an effort to separate members of the same tribe so they would not be able to communicate with the other slaves except through the slave holder’s language. Africa itself is still largely unknown to most Americans, and there is so much uncertainly in placing the ancestry of any specific African tribal group in any particular area of the United States or the Caribbean. ![]() African Source Materials It is Africa that is the largest presence in African American music, and it is still the least understood. ARCHIVE OF BOOKS, RECORDINGS, SHEET MUSIC, VIDEOS, AND ADVERTISING MATERIALS IIB. ![]()
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