African American Music: From Spirituals to Jazz and the Blues

a narrative documentary explaining the progression of African-American music. All files are used under the Fair Use Act for educational purposes.

[@mhiguelhorta]

The cry of pain of the African people in America was transformed into one of the most beautiful songs in the world.

[@Regalman]

they were not african

[@vergespierre4271]

We aren't African, lol,the world?,smh

[@windsurfer8824]

​@@Regalmanthey were

[@windsurfer8824]

​@@vergespierre4271you are lol

[@vergespierre4271]

@windsurfer8824 No, sir, we are not. And no uninformed, indoctrinated "African" or pan African can say but babble conjecture and emotion rhetoric

[@vonniemo26sis31]

Black American music influence is global. WE LIT

[@jasminepearls1047]

I resent this now because now everyone tries to claim it

[@karlthomas7363]

@Jeremy Jones yet your stupid ass is on a video about black people.

[@taynacalmon9140]

@Jeremy Jones You're so stupid by saying that. You'd better study a little bit. Black people are good at so many other fields, as Science!

[@nikolademitri731]

Jeremy is a troll, he knows damn well what he’s doing, and he’s only doing it bc he’s behind a keyboard (probably in his mom’s basement, at that). Not a chance he’d have the balls to say something so ignorant to any black person’s face. Any idiot can look at modern stats and say, for example, “well, why do blacks make up such a small part of the population, but commit most of the crimes”, or other ignorant comments that grossly overgeneralize, essentialize, and ignore context; ultimately, all it reveals is an extreme deficit in an ability to think critically, and actually do proper research. It takes a few minutes to delude oneself with the racist pseudoscience and pseudo-intellectualism that runs rampant online, and has been a cornerstone of far right “thinking” for a long time now. It takes far more effort, research, and critical thinking to actually understand the systems and structures that we all exist in, and why certain outcomes may show more struggles for some groups than others. Nobody who’s actually done due diligence, and spent time attempting to understand the multiple layers of context that we all exist in, and that any given bit of data exists in, comes to such simplistic conclusions about an entire group of people. Ignorance is bliss. Enjoy your delusions, Jeremy. Or, you know, maybe grow up a little and try to understand the world you exist in, and the multiple “others” who surround you.

[@taynacalmon9140]

@Njörðr of the Atlantic was it? Is it? Some of the Black people had their names erased from this history. But their contributions are undeniable.

[@demoncatthing]

I know y'all doing this jazz history paper last minute.

[@sotirisgeorgiou]

lol, yes

[@robertonaranjo8787]

💀

[@zelenatamrakar2550]

I feel attacked. Also, watching this in 2x speed.

[@ledimusiq]

@@zelenatamrakar2550 I feel so attacked RN!

[@nikomitrione]

STOP IT 😭😭😭

[@thomasr3805]

You can’t learn the blues. You have to feel the blues! Such a sad origin for such a beautiful aspect of US culture. The true pioneers of US music, since so many of the themes surface in music throughout time since.

[@quincy9908]

African/Black American music is a better description of it.

[@thomasr3805]

@@quincy9908 I think you’re splitting hairs here. “You have to feel the blues” is a common adage among the greats. Do you think buddy guy, muddy waters, or BB King identify as “African/Black American musicians” ? I am using the term that these artists use to describe their own work, not a PC-suggested name change to their story. You don’t call Renaissance art “Venetian/ Italian art”..., so I will continue to call the Blues, the Blues.

[@ms.valdez5633]

@@thomasr3805 I believe when you u said usa culture that was what they were referring to. Its black culture cause that's were it comes from

[@thomasr3805]

@@ms.valdez5633 the music was cultivated in the US… The ingredients are African, but it was created here. You cannot remove the American experience (as dark as it was) from the influence of the music. We call huasteco music huasteco. Not “ 1800s industrialized German-Mexican polka music” if you get my point.

[@ms.valdez5633]

@@thomasr3805 and thats why you say African American culture.

[@jaysteve8048]

From Spirituals to Jazz and the Blues? Well yeah. Adding to the list are music forms: Ragtime, Country, Gospel, Rock n Roll, R&B, Funk, Doo-Wop, Disco Punk Rock, House and of course--Rap and Hip-Hop. Also, Latin music forms: Samba, Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, Timba, Rumba, Mambo, Cumbia, Champeta, Soukous Sebene, Cha Cha Cha, Tango, Pachanga, Son, Tropicalia Carioca, Zouk etc.--all enjoy undeniable African roots and undisputed African influence.

[@naga7461]

Blk American influence not African

[@ezrabrhane450]

All the black Americans genres u mentioned has nothing to do with Africa, it’s all black Americans creation and we influence Africans and other peoples

[@barnacles62]

The foundation of America, this is TRUE Americana!!!!

[@jannatinkarlen8702]

this music is basically the root of 21st century music

[@patricelockertanthony7630]

It's the root of American music (even before "America" was formed). Which fact takes us back many more than 23 years (the span of the 21st century so far).

[@Regalman]

no its 21st century music all modern generes copied Black American music you simpleton@@patricelockertanthony7630

[@pursuitofsound3120]

This sort of history is so crucial to the American story. It blows my mind that it has never had a longer Ken Burns style documentary around it.

[@jensjacobsen2349]

Ken Burns does have a jazz documentary

[@patricelockertanthony7630]

@@jensjacobsen2349 Jazz is beholden to the Blues, but a documentary on Jazz should never be used as an answer to someone lamenting the lack of the same for the Blues. They are different art forms and formed during different time periods and encapsulated different experiences.

[@barnacles62]

This IS American history, America was built on this.....

[@KM-hw1rt]

Black American history

[@tesmith47]

AARE YOU REALLY SURPRISED??

[@user-wt7iw9xw8i]

Thank you for this awesome documentary.❤

[@franciscusnuyts627]

XXXX Styles of music , dance, design, art , church , and strenght !!!!!! 😍😍😍😍🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@littlemissnightangelorblue4832]

guess what I'm a African American and i love this😊😊.

[@Domholiday4530]

Nationality is American...yet not be naive to one's heritage

[@dontworryaboutittf]

@@Domholiday4530 African American *

[@James-lu4hb]

I'm African American also and I'm proud of my ancestors 🙂

[@africanamericanbabes5743]

@@Domholiday4530 African American is a ethnicity not a Nationality…African Americans nationality is American African Americans race: Black African American ethnicity: African American African American Nationality: American

[@patricelockertanthony7630]

@@africanamericanbabes5743 Are you an ethno-anthropologist with the Smithsonian?

[@johnforjustice2350]

Great information. But agree narrator sounds like a pre-adolescent trying to finish as fast as he can. The subject is absolutely fascinating. This music is the backbone of all American Music. Blues. Jazz. Rock. Rap hip hop. Name the genre and you will find it’s beginning here.

[@HeathsHobbyLobby]

Okay you said name the genre and you will find its roots here, what about sea shanties? What about Christian music before the US American states existed? And continued in the Americas when they got here. What about classical music? That continued in America when they got here. What about Celtic music? Celtic music has a huge influence on American music and it existed before what we call America. I can't deny the influences on African music in America. And people still make all these types of music today. People want to break down American music into a small portion and only go back to the 1930s. Trying to pin down music to one origin is impossible. But people do it for some reason. That is like saying one person created the whole English language. Lol

[@user-zm3il5lj5v]

The man said 'american music, classical music and celtic music is not american. Christan music before the invention of the us is european. Stick to the topic when trying stupid shit.@@HeathsHobbyLobby

[@chuckHart70]

Wow all the negative comments... pretty informative.

[@janethampton6671]

No, just constructive criticism. Hopefully it will be helpful. The content is amazing. It's very well put together. But is is reading basically in a monotone. This is exciting stuff. It has to be presented as such.

[@casper6198]

Salty white tears

[@JB-lb8sl]

That's because you don't know a fact from white lies/fiction about our people, the Indigenous Americans.

[@James-lu4hb]

White people Jealousy

[@matthewjones2513]

@casper6198 black folk at the bottom of the food chain. Why would us white folk need to be salty? We run the world.

[@KatBuckner]

Well done. I'm sharing this with my students!

[@steveclinton4084]

Hello kat how are you doing hope you’re having a great time with your family and safe from the covid, may God bless you and your family

[@amalia244]

amazing!!!!!! thanks a lot!!!!!!!!! you have included every interesting detail!!!

[@steveclinton4084]

Hello Amy how are you doing hope you’re having a great time with your family may God bless you all

[@SeaSerpentLevi]

Blues is a king that will rule for ever

[@leanneblake2528]

Keeping up, your feeling, Sharing with other s

[@baspiskopos]

Love form Turkey. We love black people culture ❤️

[@alexnurture8401]

But would a black person be accepted in Turkey?

[@yushuahuesun9423]

@@alexnurture8401 not really they hate us but want what we got out of envy.

[@jaxthewolf4572]

Thank you! ❤

[@KM-hw1rt]

Just don’t try and colonize or appropriate our art.

[@bford17]

Great resource and detailed. Sharing with others.

[@maxharrison257]

Hello 👋 👋

[@ifyoueverfind78]

excellent. more please!

[@tarik.61]

This songs helped me by the Studie in music

[@whois7557]

this was great thank you !

[@timsilinedjazia3984]

a white!, which starts in the musical variety, if it is good, it is a black!, what more natural!, it is in him!!, it is genetic!! they know that!!!!!.

[@bamask8life]

black folks made music

[@coalkingryan881]

Modern music maybe, but not all music in general

[@yushuahuesun9423]

@@coalkingryan881 they created music when you use your voice.

[@yushuahuesun9423]

@LostItt and why you on an African video and you not even Africans you just prove the point.

[@BeattapeFactory]

@@yushuahuesun9423 black americans are not africans. yes black americans had great impact on western music in the last 150 years but to claim black americans created music is stupid af

[@DemiMariee]

@@BeattapeFactoryPlease tell me why in the fuck we are called African Americans then 😭 where does my African DNA come from? Europe?

[@mhiguelhorta]

Admirable people and wonderful songs!

[@emilyguerrero2738]

Yes so wonderful. How's your day going?

[@mhiguelhorta]

@@emilyguerrero2738 Very good my dear!

[@emilyguerrero2738]

@@mhiguelhorta are you single i will love us to chat in another platform

[@mhiguelhorta]

@@emilyguerrero2738 I love black music! I'm not a singer. I'm an admirer!

[@emilyguerrero2738]

@@mhiguelhorta i meant are you single? Not if you're a singer.

[@rodrigosuarez2914]

great mini doc

[@grusminions7652]

Rodrigo Suarez I agree.

[@thomasmartinscott]

The content was VERY Good!

[@UnfilteredAmerica]

Great work!!!

[@AniketNaikme]

Enlightening! 🥹👏🥹👏🥹👏

[@quincy9908]

I'm surprised you didn't bring up Kansas City, MO when talking about Jazz.

[@kennyharrington1404]

Power to the people

[@robertk877]

What’s the jazz songs name that starts @ 0.28

[@littlemissnightangelorblue4832]

My favorite

[@burgey2145]

What is that song after BB King is pictured

[@_franchised_]

If you look at those Underground Railroad routes, think about people who have relatives in different states today and look at the similarities like Georgia and Ohio, Mississippi And Illinois and Alabama and Michigan etc.

[@lasha4585]

Country music IS also Black Music. It’s the southern blues!!!! What’s known as Blues today is from the North/Chicago area. ✌🏽❤️🏹

[@jenniferdefusco7724]

This was very good!

[@onypotenty]

God ! this musics is realy holy !

[@lovewinsintheend]

I love how this guy probably did this for a class but it blew up for more profound education and awareness than solely academics. MashaAllah

[@MythDetect]

Who’s that performing at beginning?

[@JohnPesebre]

Hey +Austin Pegouske, can you give the link to the manuscript of this documentary? If hope you won't mind.

[@kenny2385]

Wou ini luar biasa mantap.

[@emanuelolvera3947]

Thanks bro

[@phakisotinzi4116]

God gave Africa music

[@naga7461]

Smh

[@ezrabrhane450]

Africans didn’t create no music bro

[@Jedi_Black]

It’s (African American/SoulAAn) music.. Africa does NOT own us.. fck off..

[@ledeodorant3129]

​@@ezrabrhane450 my brother no form of art was just created out of the blue, check the article on blues origin you would see that blues is a form of question and answer style and the style and rythm take its roots to Africa. Your African ancestors in slave ships kept their culture as much as they kept the vaudou and the spiritual elements from there too. Now it is true that blues is an African American music style as it is African music transformed through the experience of slavery in America. But blues is exactly that black African slaves finding a mean to exchange information through music.

[@KM-hw1rt]

This a black American art form. Do black Americans walk around claiming Afro beat or amapiano. Stop trying to hijack our culture

[@Monaedeezy]

Black 🇺🇸! 🌹

[@chowarmyvlog4282]

That's answers my question why African American are the best in musicality

[@tarb92]

The dialogue is actually pretty rhythmic

[@tylerfraser13]

Why would it stop at blues?

[@Giovy-Perez]

TRUE! ... GOD BLESS YOU, JESUS THE REAL INFLUENCER #FREEMUSIC #BLUESGOSPEL FROM THE SPIRIT OF THE HEART

[@mariajames-thiaw5797]

You should have me do the voice over. LOL

[@steveclinton4084]

Hello Maria how are you doing hope you’re having a great time with your family and safe from the covid, may God bless you all

[@nr-ke8qj]

who is the guitarist at 10:25 ?

[@ngugikioi3147]

Great film

[@boomerfunnyjimgaffigan4998]

can I get sources? writing a paper

[@Tico4president]

Who’s the blues guitarist at 10:30?

[@jerryconnors1703]

Did I see Buddy Bolden's picture in there? Twice? A shame (if it was) that he wasn't featured a bit.

[@DigitalLazarus]

This is a potentially heartfelt documentary that may be a million times better served with knowledgeable, compassionate, and emotive voice over. The way it stands now the narrator sounds bored and ill-prepared. A re-do would vastly improve the impact of such an important and historical subject, alas.

[@kaybruce2222]

Ewan McEwan ABSOLUTELY!!! The narrator is merely reading, and with no perceptive inspiration/inflection. What a waste of potentially creative energy.

[@kaybruce2222]

Please please please please have this re-done with an inspired narrator. This wonderful script deserves it.

[@JustHackingAround]

The heavy breathing doesn't help either.

[@patriciabutler1994]

Yeah, and racist, too.

[@Vivensguillaume1]

YOU are so right! the way it was done, dose not match AT ALL! this documentary is way to deep to waste on some careless narrator ,,,what a shame

[@WOWTODAZ]

who is the guy at 10:30?

[@514musique]

¿Yo what's the very first song that the lady was singing?

[@gscales357]

It was roll jordon roll from the movie 12 years a slave

[@felicialayeni9601]

Love this! My organization is doing a Black History Month program on how Black culture has helped build American culture. May we have your permission to use your video in our presentation?

[@nikolademitri731]

If I understand correctly, this was a project for a class, so it’s not going to be completely exhaustive, and likely had a time limit you were expected to stay under, but one worthwhile addition, which should have come right before Jelly Roll Morton, would have been including a couple minutes on ragtime, and its most important composer, Scott Joplin (yes, more so than Morton, who also did ragtime). Anyway, it’s not meant to be a criticism, I think y’all did a fine job. Some people don’t seem to understand that you’re students, and this is a project for a class, and y’all aren’t professional voice artists. I can understand wanting to see a professionally done version, but I can’t understand the put downs, or implications that y’all were somehow disrespectful, or worse. Anyway, that’s my two cents. Great work, hope it got y’all an A, which is well deserved. ❤️🏴♾

[@sheilahendrix5935]

Ma💙y God 💚Be With💚 Everyone Always 💞Much 💛Love 💚Blessings Always ❤ 🙏 🌐❤🎇💯💯💯💯💯✌✌✌✌💚💚💚💚

[@eduardodeiro8598]

Parabens meu amigo, essa historia tem muito haver, assisti ao video e parabenizo por expor essa realidade a todos. Eduardo J. Deiró - São Paulo/Brasil

[@chrisjung3989]

Who's the guitarist in the beginning?

[@stevieashley9871]

Chris Jung BBking blues singer.

[@kasperbolding18]

Jelly Roll Morton didn't start or invent jazz, Buddy Bolden did. He was however as i recall the first one to write it down. Please, correct me if I'm wrong.

[@twalabusi_siwe2346]

Yes Buddy Bolden is ONE of the first Jazz musicians . Jelly Roll claimed to have invented the Jazz style.

[@thebrazilianatlantis165]

"the first one to write it down" It's a myth. Jelly said himself that jazz isn't what's written down, it's the improvisation off of whatever's written down. The fact that Jelly put out a blues as sheet music in 1915 -- about the 30th blues that anyone put out as sheet music -- doesn't have to with "writing jazz down" in a meaningful way, and 1915 isn't very early in the context of jazz anyway considering that Bolden stopped playing 8 years earlier.

[@gokhanaltuntop6970]

Help, How do I find the song in the first entry

[@justchats4985]

The movie in 12 years a slave

[@samhassan683]

song at 0.30??

[@snipesclass]

worry, worry, worry - bb king

[@flapjack143]

I’m white and I love the old delta blues like Robert Johnson

[@amerdidi3126]

At 3:00, monophoBic?

[@tothebankzay1097]

word no wheere near mono

[@akeemhimself]

Am I wrong or should funk be a apart of this?

[@windsurfer8824]

You aren't wrong. It should be.

[@producoesagrutaruifernande4893]

top...

[@ladelletomson6069]

By the way when I say those are the same people I'm not talking about color I'm talking about from the spirit and that's what it should be about and that's what Elvis learn from them and several others but from the research and the mean things I've seen they really knew how to access that spirit and let it take over you and we all need to be doing that together. It's not about your color in that situation it's about if you can feel the spirit or God flowing through so much that your body just shakes and you just let go and just let it take you

[@arredon2]

I have a question, why's that EEUU was the only place where the slaves develop such a sublime choruses .. here in Brazil or in the Caribbean, the main thing is percussion , but not so many voices

[@arredon2]

There should be a root in the part of the Africa where them were captured

[@jaxthewolf4572]

Unfortunately the slave masters had something to do with it. They even tried to ban percussion and african drumming here in America.

[@thanhvinhnguyento7069]

Damn black people are lit

[@truthfinder4973]

i play guitar and know music history all blue grass, soul, jazz, blues and rock and countrys it al roots back to black wisdom we all need to give creds to the people that invented it all they did.ty for putt this video up im big on tell this the most i can when it comes up.

[@little_starz1xs423]

thanks man even though I turned my paper in last minute

[@stevieashley9871]

the narrator must should look into Africa and hear where all Africans out side of Africa get the rhythm and singing styles from. When black people sing spiritual know matter would country they come from they sound the same.

[@jasminepearls1047]

As an AA no we don't all sound the same. AA is very different from the various forms of African music even from other diasporans. Black Cuban music have their own sound it sounds a little African.

[@tize8310]

Reality Check African-American music takes mostly from the tradition of the upper West African Sahel and Sudanic regions, while Afro cuban music takes mostly from the tradition from the lower West African and Central African "forested" regions. The music of these regions is vastly different as it African-Americans vs Afro-Cubans(even though there are some shared characteristics such as cross rhythms & claves). "Afro-Cuban and African American music is very similar yet very different. Why? Because “essential elements of these two musics came from different parts of Africa, entering the New World by different routes, at different times, into differently structured societies” (Sublette, 159). These essential elements in African American music do not appear in Cuban music: swing and the blues scale. Cuban music contains elements of the clave (a rhythmic key) and “those undulating, repeating, melodic-rhythmic loops of fixed pitches called guajeo, montuno, or tumbao” (159). The reason for these differences was that they reflected two different musical styles that of Sudanic Africa and forest Africa." - Ned Sublette, Cuba and it's music

[@elevatedgoddess3917]

@boy14395 exactly

[@eunicehen4959]

I dokt think anyone of you is very expierienced with travelling. Blacks in the USA belive they are the only blacks in the world.. think they are the only ones who creatr music. Travel more guys. When it comes to gospel und spiritual music black people are very similar.. but it is true that the music of latin america espiecially cuba and the csrribean is wqy more similar to west and southern africa.. But the african basis is extremly similar. Also the reason why blacks dont have so much drumming and tribal dancing like afrixan and latin americans is becsuse the blacks in usa were not allowed to.mantain drums and other parts of culture but in latin americs especially in cuba they preserved so much including the names of the tribes and orishas... that xou can trace back in africa.. but wven us in africa cant explain because of of conquest.. please guys stop the ignorance. Espcially the african americans...

[@littlegothgirl8869]

@@eunicehen4959 I'm African American. Trust me, we're not all as ignorant and prideful about it as some of these people in this comment section. I study history and do research about different cultures so I understand the connection and evolution of African culture through their descendents in different parts of the world. You are absolutely correct. Many things relating to African culture such as West African drums weren't openly accepted in American society, which made African American music evolve differently but there are still similarities with how we express ourselves through song and dance. I'm proud of my African roots. It has most definitely influenced African American creativity.

[@chopitupradio4286]

It wasn’t just the Irish or British doing Black face, it was jewish people doing it to.

[@Balladov]

Few Things. Work song we're sung in Africa, they creolized in the Americans, they did not originate, "to help pass the time." Also the roots of Ragtime, Blues, and New Orleans Jazz are all in Creole music. Not Minstrelsy, although that part of the video was done very well.

[@daviabardonado1078]

Dude give it up Black Americans created and cultivated these music genres. You claim their music but creole nor Africans can make music to the same magnitude.... How do you create something and fail to make an impact like they did.... sit down

[@Balladov]

@@daviabardonado1078 Um Creole is African American. I'm an Africana and Black studies and music education major, and a big black jazz, classical, salsa, reggea, and hip-hop musician. It is important to know the througline of our history. I wasn't saying black-americans didn't start these styles, I was offering a more complete picture that differes from the conjecture offered in this video. Since, you know, it is my field of expertise. I'm not really sure how what you are saying differes from what I am saying. But it is clear that I triggered you and managed to make you angry, and for that I apologize. Again, I encourage you to reread my comment, because again, I'm not sure how you could of thought I said what you were getting mad about. Unless you just didn't realize the creole folks are black-americans. In which case maybe you wanna sit down and attempt to pull that foot up out the back of ya mouth.

[@KM-hw1rt]

Stop it. It’s a black American art form idiot

[@treybaker1264]

💯♾️🖖🏾💫

[@1898drebatton]

The visuals are great yet some of the information provided has been whitened up.....

[@tripsr4kids]

3:02 MonoPHONIC not monoPHOBIC lol!!

[@coloraturathomas]

I was going to say something... I wanted to use this for class, but now I can't. Please redo it with a better voice over. The music was great!

[@daviddavis6291]

All talk

[@karser6456]

too bad there's very little "music" in this music documentary..the story needs to be told but the music is really at the heart of it all.

[@yvhonepink2071]

Let us be fair

[@annablednyhblednyh6958]

omg me me omg

[@nephiilim]

From slave songs to spirituals to blues and THEN jazz

[@ladelletomson6069]

Do any of you get alot of thus come from there very very spiritual "voodoo" culture in my eyes it's not caring what the next person thinks. It's the whole group getting together with song and rhythm and just let it pull from you core and soul. I don't call that call voodoo atleast the voodoo mainstream society and I honestly don't know the whole story behind you do but what I can see is that is a group of the same people getting together and just singing their heart out not caring who's looking like At me or who is watching or I care who's listening all that matters with all the devotion in the world that you wanna sing you wanna scream, cry, or be pissed at the world, all of you are together to do it and then you feel that soul soar! If I'm wong plz tell me if that isn't the basics of "voodoo" that I absolutely love

[@michaelgarrett9492]

Nothing about black gospel music and how the blues evolved from it.

[@naw6495]

Michael Garrett true gospel is the beginning of it all

[@michaelgarrett9492]

@@naw6495 exactly. Gods music influenced everything we listen to.

[@decoloniz_afro]

Let me repeat cccccccccasoids came with nothing on earth except wickednesssssss

[@jodysharpe2831]

Patron?

[@TheDankNught]

whos the guitarist around the ten minute mark?

[@peepas2633]

John Lee Hooker! Boom-Boom!

[@ryleighmeadows1380]

yall heard the nicki minaj song too right?!

[@CaptZdq1]

Why can't they say black American or at least Afro-American? The way they say it sounds discordant, has an extra syllable for nothing, and is completely gratuitous. Also it's misleading because the way they say it and also 'Afro-American' includes Arabs, and it's exclusive because it doesn't include black Canadians.

[@user-mk9kj8yf6r]

It's NOT African music. It's American FREEDMEN music.

[@voybom8884]

Great job. And, it is very US-based. You left out the the huge world of Latin music, which also has its roots in slavery and developed into multiple traditions in multiple countries (e.g. Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Brazil... everywhere), parallel to what happened in the US. The great thing is, music belongs to everybody, it springs from our human heart and creativity and bodies.

[@hackeramerica5130]

tankeo

[@XxXxSabooxXxX]

minstrelsy is pronounced... minstrel-zee. you kept saying minstrel-y

[@adengooni3877]

2016...on on on

[@virtuousAssassain]

Gets somebody else to do that voice over cause..

[@queensweet5900]

SYNCHOPATION WAS NOT FIRST Invented by AFRICAN.. IT has been an important element of European musical composition since at least the Middle Ages. Many Italian and French compositions of the music of the 14th-century Trecento use syncopation, as in of the following madrigal by Giovanni da Firenze. . Beethoven Bach Handle used it too

[@janeellsworth6336]

You're speaking of notated syncopation. Improvised and unnotated music of all cultures probably included what we would call syncopation long before the middle ages.

[@slambk]

Nice stuff, but at the End it went a bit out.. You can still trace Jazz's root .. no way else just in Africa... Come and try to listen to our Folklore music... no need to debate about that... thnx

[@AJ-pc5ln]

What?

[@ezrabrhane450]

Africans don’t have the skills to a music like ours bro u all busy with tribalism fight

[@slambk]

@@ezrabrhane450 go re read ur History... all them music roots dance from ancestral DNA... hope that will make it easier for you

[@ezrabrhane450]

@@slambk u dumy if that’s the case how came we created over 20 different genres but u all over there billions of u don’t even have one genre that the world listens to

[@jamesliepa8765]

Not bad but the narrator speaks too fast to compensate for the wordy script. Sounds like a book report. Comes off as the narrator is disinterested or disconnected to what he is saying.

[@aApTiN]

he is white

[@Filippa1.1.]

And u are racist

[@citrusblast4372]

Maybe it is