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Black women in the American music industry originates from the traditional music from the Transatlantic Slave Trade. This music was the blueprint to the newer genres of music, such as blues, rock, gospel music, jazz, and bluegrass.
On June 1872, the final part of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” allowed the Fisk Jubilee Singers to become popular among the audience in Boston’s Coliseum. This group consisted of former slaves who assisted in getting Fisk University out of debt. As time passed, the Fisk Jubilee traveled and toured in the United States and Europe singing different forms of music: traditional spirituals, blues, classic jazz, and rhythm and blues. R&B music is another name for rhythm and blues.[1]