How Did Music Affect African American Culture

1. Music is a profound art form that is often employed as a survival mechanism for Black people, especially those who experienced the Maafa (West Africa Enslavement Holocaust) that needed to lighten their heavy load, ease the physical and psychological pain of fieldwork, backbreaking work, and outright brutal suffering. Later on in history the descendants of Africa in the global Diaspora (also, on the continent of Africa) listened to music passionately during social gatherings; they dance and party to it energetically into the late hours of the night; marched long frightened miles in the protests with it flowing into their ears; it uplifts their humanity during spiritual and religious ritual and it is an outlet for their bottomless pit of sorrow. As well, music can raise African people’s political consciousness. On the Caribbean Island of …show more content…
Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley was the offspring of Cedella Booker-Marley (1926–2008) and Norval Marley on February 6, 1945 (1881– 1955). Bob’s mother was a Black Jamaican with Ghanaian roots. Cedella’s father, Omeriah Malcolm was well known and respect bush doctor and spiritualist who healed and contested curses. Bob’s father was a White Jamaican with Syrian Jewish blood, his professions were a Marine officer and captain, plantation overseer and construction engineer. It is not about what you look like on the outside but who you are on the inside. Bob Marley was raised Black in a majority Black country and lived the Black experience, therefore he was truly Black in his mind, heart and soul. Bob Marley was Blackheart Soul Man. Bob was born in Saint Ann Parish, Nine Mile road in Jamaica. The sweet green tree air and rich brown earth soil of Saint Ann Parish appears to be sacred location that brought forth other reggae artists. Such as, Burning Spear, Floyd Lloyd, Bryan Art, Romain Virgo, Chezidek, and some others. Also, Marcus Mosiah Garvey (August 17, 1887 – June 10, 1940) was born in Saint Ann Parish,