Negro Spiritual “Race Music” Blues
1900’s
Christian Hymns
Jazz
Rhythm & Blues
Gospel Music 1948-1949
Soul Music
Early 1960’s

“Blackface minstrel” show, 1900

Emmett Miller (1900-1962)

a minstrel singer with his banjo,1884

Negro Spiritual Singers from North Carolina, 1939

Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973)

Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972)

The March of Washington, 1963

The March of Washington, 1963

Martin Luther King Jr.

African-American student, late 60’s

Mexico City, Summer Olympics, 1968

Ray Charles (1930-2004)

1959

Aretha Franklin
(1942- )

1968

1968

Otis Redding (1941-1967)

June 17th, 1967

1965

James Brown (1933-2006)

1968

1970

Double Bass
(Upright Bass)

Electric Bass

James Jamerson (1936-1983)
with his “Funk Machine”

1971

Sly and the Family Stone

1969

Larry Graham (1946- )

Thumpin’ and Pluckin’
“Slap” bass style
“Slapping”

Curtis Mayfield (1942-1999)

1972

George Clinton (1941- )

Bootsy Collins (1951- )

Tower of Power

Earth, Wind and Fire

Prince (1958- )

The Living Colour

Red Hot Chili Peppers

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