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Music is the tie that binds and the language that has flowed through and across cultures since the beginning of time.
Tragically, children could be and often were sold away to other plantations and away from their mothers. Using only their voices to make music, enslaved people developed a song style and sound that would become the hallmark of Black music.Before choirs, spirituals were sung without instruments by enslaved people while they worked the fields, or for performance.
"Basic chord progressions, you might say it’s the blues,” Robinson said. “If you close your eyes, it might be Sunday morning.” So many people relate to the Emancipation Proclamation, which President Abraham Lincoln, signed in September 1862 to go into effect January 1, 1863. On January 1, there was a battle of Galveston where the Confederate Army took back control of the island, delaying enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation. Because the Confederate army regained control of the port city of Galveston, that delayed enforcement for two and a half years.
“Everything that Galveston went through historically, this church went through. We were here when the 1900 storm came, when the 1885 Great Fire of Galveston came when emancipation came in 1865, this church was already in existence,” Gillins said. Enslaved people were informed of their newfound rights by mostly Black soldiers at Reedy Chapel. It became one of the most important locations for the announcement of emancipation.
The music pushed out of the age-old pipes, up toward the heavens, and into the chapel. The sounds are captivating, moving people in the pews during Sunday service. Together they sing and give gratitude for their faith, their freedom and most of all the church. Marian Anderson sang on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 and became the first Black soloist at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
University of Arizona professor Dr. Tyina Steptoe said ragtime developed in different parts of the country around the late 1800s into the early 1900s. The combined sounds filled rural Louisiana French-speaking farm families' homes dating back to the early 20th Century. Folks knew it back then as la-la music.
With new instruments and sounds, came a new name for the music. Zydeco music flourished and grew in popularity. By the 1980s the French Town community had faded. This was the Savoy Ballroom and more in our region of the country. It saw all sorts of award-winning premiere acts. “It's the first time that there's a Black person in charge of what's going on, and he predates so many of the Black entrepreneurs who are going to use music as a base of their economic empires,” Steptoe said. “You know, without Don Robey, there's not even a Berry Gordy in Detroit to inspire by what he's seeing going on in Houston. And Berry Gordy has said before in interviews that he was inspired by Don Robey and Duke Peacock.
All three represent Houston and the Houston sound hard. They said the city had to stand out from the start when it came to music.
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