Music

Music Music is a great form of a historical source that tells us about people, places and histories of different civilizations and generations. Songs are generally divided into 3 categories: classical, popular and folk. The word song is divided into two categories; music which is the common ground between all songs and rendition which refers to the performance of the song. A song is not simply composed of lyrics and tunes, but the context in which the song is created is also extremely important. A key factor for songs is the enjoyment of its listeners and the factors that contributed to make the listener like the song. American history is greatly reflected in music that started since the arrival of Europeans and Africans. The first American popular song tradition was the minstrel show, with songs that survived over 60 years and are still sung today. These songs emerged from the styles of African-Americans. Eventually African Americans eventually created its own all-black minstrel show. However African culture was not the only influence on American popular music, Irish and Italian cultures also greatly contributed to American music. Mid 19th Century American music changed to appeal to the commercial markets. At first they sold music, song, songs, american, african, show, popular, today, sold, minstrel, americans, word, within, pop, own, industry, important, histories, greatly, form, first, extremely, eventually, divided, different, cultures, created, contributed, changing, categories, became, years, written, writing, white, very