Or alt title: Stealing Negros Spiritual Experiences. And I don't know how many times we have to say this. Even the existence of such a thing as "American" music is dubious. Black people created all genres of music in the US and despite the global influence and unabashed imitation of our Black American cultural art forms, we've profited the least from their reach and much propaganda persists:

Black music is NOT the "soundtrack to America"

nor did it arise from a blend of styles from a "multi-ethnic" population

and when you say every genre has "Black roots", that's just an unnecessarily genteel way of saying that we created all genres of music in this country.

Join us and the inimitable @patiencesings as we talk negro spirituals, the afropessimisms of prayer warriors and the merits of Black music made for and by Black people.

Patience Sings is a vocal prominent creative certified Reiki practitioner and writer native to Washington, D.C; Ever learning Afro-futurist, an advocate for fat Black folx, a champion for Black and Brown Youth and a proponent for Black mental health and healing through grief.

Patience is most recently recognized as the "Scat" of the Peace & Bodyroll Duo BOOMscat, and CEO of Mojuba, a rental space and artist collective in Silver Spring MD.

Patience is currently most proud of her collaborative work as an inaugural Cultural Work fellow at the Highlander Center for Education and Research, and for BOOMscat’s contribution to The Black Sound Lab at Dartmouth College and their Black Covid Care project.

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Intro Music: "Black People Tell Black History" by Patience!

Outro Music: "Apathy Happy" by Benjamin Earl Turner

References:

Helen Baylor

Kurt Carr

Richard Smallwood

Maurette Brown Clark

I'll Fly Away by Hezekiah Walker

Goin Up Yonder by Walter Hawkins