Black music has historically reflected the African American experience, illuminated the evolution of the mass black consciousness, and served as an aesthetic form of communication among its people. A rich variety of musical styles have mirrored the range of experiences that African Americans have encountered while living in white America; they have served as a metaphor for historical events and played a special role in the formulation of the black American psyche. Music provides a means of expressing the paradoxes and contradictions found in the different dimensions surrounding the lives of black Americans. It articulates the attitudes of the populace towards the political and cultural conventions of the majority population. Black music in America is a construct of the ambient factors found in black society and culture. Through spirituals or hymns, jazz compositions, gospel anthems, rhythm and blues, hip hop and other forms of musical expression, black artists...