美国黑人文化得以幸存的原因解析The Reason for the Survival of the Afro-American Culture [3]
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关键词:Afro-American culturecultural diversity; cultural movement of the blacknational consciousness美国黑人文化文化多元化黑人文化运动民族意识
n and antifascist war and made a series of battle achievements. The Afro-American also had made great contribution to the development of American economy and culture and were always the major strength of American agriculture. There are 1/3 black workers in iron and steel industry, half in automobile industry. And the black’s achievements in music, literature and sports are more notable.
Ⅲ. The Excellent Component of the Afro-American Culture
The excellent component of the Afro-American culture is the basic reason of its survival, as it provides original power for the spread of the black culture and long-drawn life-force for the continuing of the black culture.
A. The Comparability of the Ancestor’s Culture
Most black sold to America come from three regions of Africa, the up Guyana, the down Guyana and the Angolan seashore. And the three regions can be divided into seven sub-regions and the culture within each sub-region is very similar. Most slaves are prisoners and they are carried to America in the ship. While the prisoners of one war always come from the same sub-region culture, therefore, the slave on one or even a set of mongered slave ships are similar in culture①. Because of the similarity in culture, the contact between slaves formed on the mongered slave ship are strengthened in the new environment②. What’s more, the slave monger of the Europe always chronically monger the salve of one certain port of Africa to an narrowed area of America②. On the other hand, many planters of America are not very strict with the salves coming from some certain areas. Though they are in different plantations, the slave with different cultural underground can often meet each other. The slave with the same cultural underground can even marry and form a family. Therefore, it is not strange that the Africa black culture can transmit to American and carry on. The following are some examples.
The spread of the language and name culture of Africa black in Africa play an important role in the development and continuing of Afro-American culture. The lyric of the black song is also an important form of the spread of African language in America. The name of the Afro-American is a way of surpassing slavery, keeping self-respect and insuring their identity identification. Some blacks can trace their family origin back to many years ago by having their planter’s surname as their own surname. This is propitious to increase the identification of their unique culture. Moreover, the African name also appears directly in the Afro-American name, “some African names are well known by the black and white”. To name after “Monday”, “Friday” is the continuing of the way of African naming. Even if when they use European names, the black are willing to use the names that sound like African names③.
B. The Original and Unvarnished Character of the Afro-American Culture
The Afro-American culture has the original and unvarnished character mainly in music and art. It is passed down from the African black culture.
In music, the original and unvarnished black music mixes with other music culture and creates more and newer characterized music culture. The music culture of North and South America is deeply affected by the black music culture. And the bluesy and jazz are the two contributions that the Afro-American have made for the American culture. The bluesy music is revolting music. It gets rid of the restriction of western civilization and gains free rhythm to e
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