The creation of American jazz, blues, swing, rap, and hip hop started long ago when African song and dance was combined with European styles. In the West Indies and throughout the Americas wherever slaves were kept, there was an interaction between white and black. I think of it as understudy. Two films show blacks in charge of plantation music, Gone With the Wind and Twelve Years a Slave.
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The Log House (1826)
This sheet music’s title page explains the appearance of African-American music in the 1820s.
The song itself does not seem to have African-American musical themes. Apparently this publisher was not ready for that bold step. That came a couple of years later.
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A large and very special African-American song list:
1819 Jim Crow
1826 The Log House
1830 Zip Coon
1832 Coal Black Rose