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Slave was an American Ohio-based funk band popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist Steve Washington, [1] born in New Jersey, attended East Orange High School, and was one of the first users of the "electric trumpet". He and Trombonist Floyd Miller formed the group in Dayton, Ohio, in 1975. [2]
People Get Ready: A New History of Black Gospel Music. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 0-8264-1752-3. Koskoff, Ellen, ed. (2000). Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 3: The United States and Canada. Garland Publishing. ISBN 0-8240-4944-6. National Conference on Music of the Civil War Era (2004).
African-American music is a broad term covering a diverse range of musical genres largely developed by African Americans and their culture.Its origins are in musical forms that developed as a result of the enslavement of African Americans prior to the American Civil War.
Black America has a long and winding history of using songs for defiance and consolation. Testimonies from slave ship sailors recall how kidnapped Africans during the Atlantic slave trade sang to ...
Spirituals (also known as Negro spirituals, African American spirituals, [1] Black spirituals, or spiritual music) is a genre of Christian music that is associated with African Americans, [2] [3] [4] which merged varied African cultural influences with the experiences of being held in bondage in slavery, at first during the transatlantic slave trade [5] and for centuries afterwards, through ...
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"Slide" is a song written, arranged and performed by American R&B/funk band Slave. It was released in 1977 through Cotillion Records as a lead single from their self-titled debut album Slave. Production was handled by Jeff Dixon. The song peaked at number 32 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and topped the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. [1]
There are three distinct types of slave song: African music, Afro-American music, and the blending of Negro music with the songs of Caucasians. The New World slave came to constitute its own people with a separate and unique culture and experience – one of long-suffering and struggle, but also one of hope and solidarity.