Why is African American music so popular in The USA?

Why do African genres DOMINATE American music culture?
From gospel, to jazz, from Jubilee, to rap, African style genres have DOMINATED the American music scene for 100 years now. Is African style music just better than European style music? Why is America so engulfed in these styles? Is the music just better? Or is it something deeper than that?
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[@h0ser]

It's a miracle I didnt get a copyright claim on this lol

[@axoloman]

Great video

[@AlsDomain]

It really isnt to wild given the way the copyright system works. Essentially if the musician has been dead for 70 years there music is in the public domain All the songs you played were in that domain. Do you have any Insta or something I’d love to collaborate with you on a video or something since we do similar stuff.

[@cavaleer]

Dude, Idk where you're from but you don't have a clue what you're talking about here. I added my full comments below.

[@reycesarcarino4653]

What's the music you use

[@douglasmarshall3146]

the beat u used over the hip-hop part is so similar to "today was a good day" by icecube

[@ethanpinella3074]

African Americans pretty much created what would become modern American music

[@Tashaten]

African American culture is truly a blessing!!!! There is so much respect and love for my ancestors!!!!

[@5minutesaway]

Yes gangsta rap music and 60 percent of muders are a blessing.

[@Tashaten]

@5minutesaway ... Before gangster rap!!! There were positive old-school hip hop legends!!! Don't respond back to me with foolishness!!! Byeee

[@Ghall2708]

@@5minutesawaythat music is hard too. But there’s also a lot of black people who make great family friendly music that most people like. Bryson tiller is a good example

[@5minutesaway]

@@Tashaten no i liked when blacks made the jazz and rock music ya know the stuff that wasnt about dealing drugs, killing, rapeing, looting, robbing, stealing, cash and whores.

[@SOULAANI_]

⁠@@5minutesawayWell for one music is music, regardless of whats being spoken about so cope, second Gang culture is a subpiece of the broader culture. To muddle it down to just rap shows how slow and disingenious you lot can be

[@LegoLordPro]

We have to thank African Americans more for giving us the music that we love and cherish.

[@LegoLordPro]

@Wiegraf Even those made by white Americans?

[@KratomFlavoredAdidas]

@Wiegraf you would hate bach if he was born in 1970 and not white

[@KratomFlavoredAdidas]

@Wiegraf what kind of psycho babble is that? You know for a fact that what I said makes perfect sense and what you said makes none. The issue isn't that I think black people invented everything, it's that you think white people invented everything, probably including the universe too based on your ramblings.

[@wholewheatcracker3561]

@Wiegraf racially motivated

[@danksanchez4324]

@Wiegraf Don’t care Bach’s Mid 🥱

[@blenshanegro3260]

Nice video main criticism i have is the idea that most people didnt know where they were from by the 2 generation(this was something that usually happened around the 3-5 generations.) A very well known example is Major Martin Delany who could trace his ancestors back to the Gola and Mandinka peoples of West Africa. My only other criticism would be that instruments that originated from West Africa and influenced the formative years of Black American music like the Mandinka and Wolof Guitar and various flutes were not mentioned but these played a massive role. (Blues wasn't mentioned or the influence on country through the Banjo) at this point im nitpicking however overall very good video.

[@ethandew1768]

Music is the heart and soul of American culture. African Americans have given me something to be proud of in America.

[@JohnDoe-bh2lp]

African American culture, not American. When it was created, African Americans were only considered 3/5 of an American.

[@Demicleas]

@@JohnDoe-bh2lp So your buying into racist American rederict? Hypocrite.

[@ethandew1768]

@@JohnDoe-bh2lp they're still American

[@canofsouls282]

@Wiegraf explain how? Sorry but your bs philosiphy cant take from the fact that the US is the most musical group.

[@canofsouls282]

@Wiegraf not me, and I know so much people who would give up money for music, I think your belief system is more clouded in sterotypes and only care about the good in american culture then try to associate yourself with it because you have nothing to be proud about.

[@garlandowls1134]

I really appreciate your video. Us African Americans are often discredited for creating most of modern music. I also find it sad that our music is worth billions of dollars but we don't benefit from its wealth.

[@Clam176]

There's a lot of ignorance on the topic. People think that rock music is a "white genre" and came from white people just because of the amount of prominent white artists.

[@JackDSquat]

“Our” music? Black artists are profiting off of their songs, they just aren’t going to redistribute it to every person that is an African-American

[@garlandowls1134]

@@JackDSquat Yes! Our music! Our music is worth billions and that can help African Americans get out of poverty in this country.

[@garlandowls1134]

@@Clam176 Rock music is dominated by white people and so.. people assume that it's a white genre. Rock music is an African American genre and we deserve recognition.

[@joshbentley2307]

@@Clam176 it is a “white genre” but was made by African Americans. The majority of famous rock artists are white.

[@gustavju4686]

African style music is popular in the Americas in general. Some of the most well known Brazilian and Carribean music styles have a lot of African influence.

[@listenup2882]

Most of not all of them.

[@Alt-vw3uf]

@@listenup2882 thats what he said

[@raymonds7492]

I would say all over the world. At least in modern music, there’s usually some influences.

[@jaxthewolf4572]

Africa is the heart! 💕

[@kollontai4545]

Yes same in hispanic América salsa,regueton, cumbia, even tanto has african roots

[@TIENxSHINHAN]

All up and down the Americas, if a country has a sizable black population, black music will be the most popular.

[@mkar01]

can’t argue with that. african influenced music is even picking up in western europe too

[@demarcomixon]

@Wiegraf 😂😂😂

[@CalShanahanSF49ers]

@Wiegraf and the genre that they sing is/was created by Black people.. more white people have always *BOUGHT* more hip hop/rap albums are u implying that white people created it just because they *buy* it?

[@CalShanahanSF49ers]

@Wiegraf as *we* delude ourselves? The guy who narrates this channel definitely didn't have a AAEV accent, but he seems to believe African Americans are the *key* figures in modern music.. name the most important non-black music in modern music I dare you.. you're simply anti black and it kills you to admit how important black people are

[@CalShanahanSF49ers]

@Wiegraf ok, name a *composer* of a the top ten songs on billboard at this very moment, I bet you it's a genre that black people created.. go ahead I'll wait

[@gb.510]

Disclaimer: Ignore all comment from a user named "wiegraf". Someone said Black people make music and his brain snapped

[@henny6566]

I seen his comments. I just called him a racist. Let's see how quick he responds to tell me which one of his best friend is black.

[@DJGreatnessGaming]

I’ve been watching a lot of your videos lately, and I’ll go as far as to say this is your most meaningful one. As a young black American, music has a stronghold grip on my everyday life, and I’m proud of how my culture’s evolvement of music has correlated with our evolvement of society. Black Americans have really came a long way since Colonization, and you displayed the incredibly. Thanks for this.

[@QuatMan]

Facts! Africans are desperate to take credit for "influencing" our creation...even though they are never able to demonstrate the influence beyond the mere existence of some instruments somewhere on the African continent...

[@PedroCruzPedro]

it's often overlooked that house (edm) is also a black genre

[@d4nkx549]

Every genre has roots in black culture. It makes sense because the original humans were black. Non-black folks can only copy from the original and never match the creativity and ingenuity of black people.

[@god-of-war-fan]

@@d4nkx549 lol this is the kind of stupid delusional comment that causes unnecessary drama

[@freealter]

This video needed a much longer disco segment.

[@anissiaart6167]

And also mentioning techno probably would make sense )

[@roilo8560]

@@anissiaart6167 and house too

[@HisLordsh1p]

Its fascinating to see how this exact pattern has been repeated so many times and in so many unique ways in the United States and the world as a whole. When in times of hardship or distress, we turn to those things that gave us comfort. Unique situations and locations lead to new permutations of the old favorites, and new variations arise. African slaves in the deep south created BBQ and soul music, German settlers in Pennsylvania Americanized many of their traditional favorites like bratwursts, the list goes on and on. Truly, its a testament of the human ability to innovate, even in the most dire of straights or struggles.

[@yusefbrooks8584]

Just have one main issue is the fact that we didn't have any instruments. The Banjo is an African instrument we brought, we had our own use of the fiddle, we brought and made drums but they banned that after slave rebels used it for communication. Most of us were stripped of our instruments but many of the relics survived and were revived with the help of our Caribbean and Latin American brothers and sisters who were often given more freedom to keep instruments and music.

[@kesorangutan6170]

No offense but weren't slaves piss poor? I mean many masters didn't even provide them with housing or kitchenware. So I don't think they had many things to make instruments. Though you probably know it better than some random turkish guy like me :D

[@escomape5390]

@@kesorangutan6170 yes, but it's not all too difficult to construct a crude banjo or instrument.

[@yusefbrooks8584]

@رشيد no, I meant exactly what I said.

[@mightylaser0000]

@@user-jb6gz8qf8tlol do you think you can dissociate a group of people’s history from them are you delusional or something?

[@spontaneousspider5984]

I'm glad they made this video I noticed a lot of the time they make videos about other countries and ethnic groups but I'm actually really happy and glad that they're making one about ours and being included in the conversation I'm just glad to have my people included in the conversation

[@E-stylz-1967]

Rock & Roll comes from the Blues. From it's inception Rock was just up tempo Blues.

[@adamtrott78]

That’s why so much of early rock had the 12 bar blues playing on base

[@theactualdice5865]

And Metal came from rock, metal is very loud rock.

[@henryjohnson7083]

@Wiegraf you really are infatuated with black people…your literally on every post

[@accruenewblue]

Nice video, not sure I have thought about this topic before but it is nice to learn about.

[@maxwellbrisk5622]

Its weird hearing Black Americans get credit for anything they create..People usually just take it, build a culture off of it then claim Black Americans have no culture.

[@ShonnMorris]

Great video! Even music that's not thought of as having Black influence such as Country has our mark on it. The Banjo was created by slaves and playing the violin as a fiddle was also a Black American thing. Techno and House was also first created by Black DJs.

[@proto-guest4511]

Who don't know about Techno, it was claimed it was made by Germans.

[@smibnor7387]

I would say that ragtime was a precursor to jazz, and also that contemporary r&b takes a lot more from soul and hiphop than it does from 1940s swing

[@77Creation]

Blues and Old Negro spirituals are the root of all popular music. It was all we had to get us through the trauma of Africa betraying us and Europe oppressing us.

[@testerforvedvyaas562]

Great Video as always

[@amosculbreth5308]

Well done bro , thank you for doing a honest and just worthy video

[@supermstash29]

I can’t believe how different heavy rock sounds and modern rock in general sounds to how slow it use to be!?… thanks for giving me my all time favorite genre guys :D

[@connormclernon26]

It’s like how cats and dogs share a common ancestor and yet are so different

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[@i_flerb8666]

fire video, wished the development of the blues was more emphasized as much of jazz comes from the blues (its significantly older) so its more like work songs -> blues -> jazz/everything else

[@beacebrocess]

Nice video man

[@themac9677]

This was a good video. There are some details though that may have been off. You said mainly the south was segregated after the civil war but it was most of the United states not specifically just the south during reconstruction. In fact, slavery pretty much continued under sharecropping and vagrancy laws that eventually transformed into the prison industrial complex we see today. Another topic that was not mentioned is the rise of techno music coming from African Americans. I didn't know but it was created in Detroit by a black artist. African, and African American culture is very deep and nuanced and long but I will say you did a very good job here.

[@Demicleas]

If only Lincoln didint die we wouldn't be in that mess or this mess rather.

[@henny6566]

Techno and House music came from Disco after they killed disco.

[@salakast]

Techno is largely cooperative between both black American and European styles. It was inspired by both house/disco (a black American invention) and krautrock/synthpop/EBM (a European invention). Trans Europe Express is a huge influence on the Undergeound Resistance producers. Detroit DJs were very popular in Berlin clubs like Tresor.

[@nataliewalters2759]

Great video but you missed a few genres that African Americans founded, 1. Country which came from blue grass , 2.Soul, 3. r&b, 4. Disco and 5. Reggae 6.EDM 7. Swing

[@ironmike8303]

Don't forget the African American influence on reggae music.

[@77Creation]

There would be no reggae, ska or dancehall without it.

[@javionriley8739]

Thank you for giving black Americans ( descendants of USA chattel slavery 🇺🇸) credit where it’s due! A lot of people are realizing how black Americans are the reason why USA is USA !! Quite literally… Let’s not also forget about black American inventions/innovation 35% of USA inventions/innovation came & still come from black Americans from the Covid 19 moderna vaccine to various aspect of the modern cell phone (GIF, cellular digital technology) modern home security system etc

[@boardcertifiable]

Fashion and cuisine too.

[@Jedi_Black]

To be very CLEAR.. we’re FBA / Foundational Black/African Americans who descendants of slavery.. we have our own unique history and culture apart from Africa.. throwing in the entire diaspora without single out African Americans is disrespectful in a way..

[@Uaarkson]

Took us to the moon too.

[@77Creation]

Jack Daniels too. First black people in space and to perform open heart surgery are African Americans too.

[@77Creation]

@@Jedi_Black That's bullshit. We brought the banjo from Africa as well as okra and yams. Have some respect for Continent, in spite of the drama.

[@JohnZiTAB]

It’s pretty sad that it only took one generation for their entire family history and heritage to be lost to time.

[@malikshakur1306]

it wasn’t like that very often. a third of africans enslaved were muslim and my family is still muslims to this day. many other simply fused native and american and african cultures and religions.

[@braxtonjones6163]

@@malikshakur1306 Yeah Muslims continued the Transatlantic slave trade well into the 19 and 20th century but schools doesn’t teach this.

[@malikshakur1306]

@@braxtonjones6163 brazil, a christian nation, didn’t finish their last plantations until the 1930s. lots of anti African sentiment to be found all around the world unfortunately

[@malikshakur1306]

@@braxtonjones6163 and notice how i signified Brazil and it’s government instead of Christians worldwide, take notes baby. Many Muslims have been taken as slaves as well.

[@braxtonjones6163]

@@malikshakur1306 Maybe it’s because the majority Muslim population.

[@peterking5537]

Excellent video. Very well put together.

[@benjaminmcclelland2464]

I died when you said jazz died in the 60s. Miles Davis was only starting to make fusion by then, and in the 70s would make hip hop beats years before it was cool. Jaco Pastorious, one of the best bassists of jazz, would be a fusion artist, later than your cutoff.

[@AJGress]

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[@TURBOMIKEIFY]

Just because of the Music History I have to subscribe! I play clarinet, saxophone, and flute! So, this surprising to listen to, and was so different from the other 5 videos I watched!

[@d-1beats]

Great video. One thing missing is the contribution of James Brown and his band in the role of creating funk music which then its funky drum breaks would be sampled by party DJs snd later producers in the creation of hip hop

[@BabaBest2000]

The first time I heard the term African-American used in a way that made sense.

[@abtheone7825]

Ok now this is apart of Black American History thats NOT taught in schools across America but needs to be

[@whatsursource]

Okay, I see you little Ken Burns. Good stuff man

[@sameerhussein9493]

nice video , but also what about ..techno house disco

[@Johnny-mp2ew]

Sad that everyone skims over the blues... Considering how overwhelmingly influential it was.

[@MegaBanne]

Funk was a fusion of jazz and soul/gospel. It came as the result of jazz musicians playing with soul singers. The mixture of jazz and RnB eventually turned in to smooth jazz. Which was still called RnB in black communities. Smooth jazz was a bit of a sponge that sucked up influences from funk and classical.

[@lewakar]

And then Phonk using low-frequencies (lo-fi for short before is a genre) then the Slav came and put some JDM cars, cowbell and trap and edm to make a drift phonk, and just called it phonk, yet after sanctions, Spotify still many views of those things

[@Paidwellington]

I love your videos! New subscriber

[@bgjr2304]

Well done. Although you missed the disco to house & techno stream. The 1979 "Disco Demolition Night" riot/"Disco is Dead" movement forced the genre underground into ware"HOUSE" parties, where the DJ's were chopping & mixing disco records into new dance beats.. that came to be known as House music.. Detroit had their own scene in the mid70s that birthed Techno

[@MrDivined]

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[@jacquest2642]

Now this is a hõser video

[@h0ser]

facts

[@AbdulHannanAbdulMatheen]

👏🙂 Very interesting

[@berryberry8290]

i was waiting for you to talk about rock and roll

[@sal4993]

Cool vid

[@PakBallandSami]

we meet again lad

[@sal4993]

@@PakBallandSami yes

[@Bogfrog1]

In Latin America it’s even cooler. The cultures of Africans, Whites, and Amerindians fused to such a degree that without any one component, you wouldn’t have cumbia, merengue, reggaeton, and so so so much more

[@shamika5300]

Yall were influenced raggaeton Issa copycat of reggae....have several seats

[@javionriley8739]

@@shamika5300 reggae & ska music is literally Afro Jamaicans copying off black Americans jazz & blues 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@flora-3603]

@@javionriley8739 I don't think reggae sounds like Jazz and blues just my opinion and reggaeton is a copy of Dancehall, not Reggae.

[@nadadebraga7981]

isn’t music taste related to what touches you deep inside ? it is something soo deep it affects your mood 🌺

[@michaelowino228]

Good video.

[@elysium76]

I consider modern pop music a fusion on African and European music heritage, and now the height of this art is WAP by Cardi B

[@trey5747]

Ion think WAP is the height lol

[@jasastopar]

Cardi b is horrible

[@loriannrichardson7644]

😅🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@TheSunderingSea]

lmao high quality bait

[@canofsouls282]

Nah more of white american, latino and especially the blackb american community, tf has europe contributed

[@bm-ev6yr]

great video! got a new subbie

[@alpha4ever455]

Dope video

[@frankskynyrd]

This is how the process has worked the past century or so: African Americans create cultural meme (using meme in the original meaning as a unit of culture), America at large takes it and absorbs it into American culture, and then that is exported to the world becoming a larger part of the “dominant world culture”.

[@adefay2811]

Also to add the work music often had an underlying meaning and message to spread information,notifying of the coming and goings of the overseers,and also to educate among a few other things.

[@kakakhodenn9128]

Nostalgia, plain and simple... 🇨🇼🇩🇲🇨🇦

[@wingman4356]

Great job. you're doing important work so keep doing what you're doing

[@youdontknowjoejo]

Subscribed

[@SoundBlackRecordings]

Don;t forget about House and Techno

[@proto-guest4511]

I don't know about Techno music.

[@jaxthewolf4572]

@@proto-guest4511 Techno was created in Detroit by blacks

[@dimieneyitemi1721]

@@proto-guest4511yes techno if you don’t know use google you have all the information of the world at your fingertips

[@james8884]

Disappointed that you fail to mention the black American roots of house and techno music. I think you should do a part 2 of this.

[@javionriley8739]

Black Americans created so many music genres unlike any other ethnic group on the planet !! It’s a lot to keep track of

[@proto-guest4511]

Techno music might have been Invented by Germans.

[@nothingleft4911]

@@proto-guest4511 nah, three black high schoolers from Detroit in the 80s. It's pretty well documented. Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson.

[@tompatompsson]

@@nothingleft4911 I feel like you still have to mention that detroit techno was made from european synthpop like Kraftwerk.

[@nothingleft4911]

@@tompatompsson everything comes from something that already existed.

[@francoisfournier9813]

I know I'm putting my two cents really late and just scrolling, but this just about perfectly states something I've noticed since I was little.

[@erikabrown6823]

Well done

[@mekaeg]

No mention of Memphis or Mississippi in this “history” of black American music? These two places were the arguably the biggest influences on nearly all these popular genres. Not sure how omitting those places could have happened.

[@shadowcelica5554]

Texas too had a big influence

[@javionriley8739]

As a black American from South Carolina that is very true !! Blues came from the delta! Via Mississippi & Memphis!! People are waking up to the fact that the south is vastly different in culture! Especially black Americans culture! Gullah geechee in South Carolina ain’t the same as creole let alone black American culture in urban Mississippi & rural Mississippi etc

[@jaxthewolf4572]

As a black american with roots in Mississippi and Tennessee, I'm glad you brought it up

[@77Creation]

@@javionriley8739 Stop playing divide and conquer. It's all part of the culture.

[@Ben-xg3ht]

love it

[@woozie3489]

More fun learning here than my music teacher..

[@ghosthost100]

Honorable mention to House Music!!!

[@alpha.sapien]

Nice summary! But maybe an addendum vid is due - you skipped House music! House music was 1) born in Chicago [e.g Chicago House/Deep House.. but also deep in Detroit, Cleaveland, and the Midwest] 2) modern EDM, afrobeats, techno, tribal estatic and other “beat genres” are all iterations & sub-genres of house music, and 3) currently taking over the world - Black American music ain’t dead 🎶

[@bobbyschannel349]

You forgot disco, house music, Soul music, as well as ragtime

[@moltebin]

I like how your open not scared to say your opinion

[@rinehardt6837]

No I'm late to this one great video. I am a person who listens to a lot of music from R&B to hip-hop to rock to metal to heavy metal and thrash. And it doesn't mean I don't love the artist in those genres no matter what their skin color is. It is sad that the number of different musical styles come from Black Culture those artists are always supplanted by somebody not black. I've seen it happen in rock-and-roll I especially as seen it happened in hip-hop.

[@Tiger_Woods]

Most people hate giving black people any type of credit

[@butterman0007]

But check out popular bands from africa now. Some really amazing stuff

[@fuzzy_filly]

Biggie AND Mj mentioned in the same video

[@harveypine261]

I completely agree. Also, if you own an iPhone you should thank Graham Bell for inventing the phone in 1876.

[@wingman4356]

indecently, African American Lewis Latimer drew the blue prints of Bell's phone, and later became one of the most important people in the history of electric lighting

[@77Creation]

Jesse Eugene Russell, and african american, created the technology for the cell phone.

[@tonyoliver2330]

It’s criminal this only has 76k views in 2023. This video COMPLETELY explains why American music rules the global soundscape.

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[@thevarietychannelofyoutube4769]

It looks like most genres of music have some connection to music developed by African American musicians so I think that's why. There isn't much that has nothing to do with black music. Even the metalcore and alternative metal stuff that sounds like a heavier version of Linkin Park has some relation to it since Linkin Park themselves were very hip hop influenced.

[@temebirhanu6972]

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[@koreyp2845]

They were playing African instruments on the plantation pre emancipation. The Banjo was know as the Slave instrument as it was an evolution of the "Kora" and the "Akonting". Also Rock n Roll was created by Sister Rosetta Tharpe out of the black church. Blakc people were not emulating white sounds. In the beginning of Rock n Roll white people hated it. It was seen as savage Negro music until Elvis Pressley started making cover songs. Antoine Fats Domino's sold the first 1 million rock n roll albums by 1951 and was still being chased by white supremacist mobs after his performances.

[@lilahdog568]

I once knew this guy who was black and he had some weird musical apartheid going on on his phone's music Playlists (he had a white music Playlist full of all the rock and pop songs he liked and a black Playlist for the rap songs). I told him "your music Playlists are all wrong. All the music on your phone is originally black music," and he said "wait, what?" Some sad shit.

[@matthewsaul3533]

Love this video and love that you made it. I’d only correct one thing. European music at that time was much more focused on harmony than melody. Melody would be more like north and south Indian music etc harmony has been the main focus of European music for hundreds of years now. You also appear to have left out R&B which is a hugely influential tradition. To my knowledge it started in around the late 40s, really starting to come into its own in the 50s. In that era is was much more blues and jazz influenced. Much more loose than jazz. Much more vocal than jazz. More blues focused than jazz. But still a far cry from soul, which is what it became in the 60s.

[@LilGril10]

Do I get bonus points for recognising la vie en Rose background music?

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[@LilGril10]

@@h0ser Amen!

[@quincy9908]

@@jacksonmowell3859 Doesn't matter jit. Stop getting caught in the little shit. You can obviously identify the culture he's talking about.

[@themac9677]

@@jacksonmowell3859 Bro we are African American. Africans have went through chattel slavery and living in the colonial nations for around 400+ years but have lived in Africa for over 300,000+ years. Africans have the oldest culture and history of all groups of people. Literally the source of our human species is Africa and Africans. Through and through we are African Americans, people can just look at us and know where we are from!

[@jacksonmowell3859]

@@themac9677 If you wanna see you're self an African, Moor, Israelite, Native America, Asiatic Black person or Black Anglo-Saxon that is you're right.

[@SleepysCChevyCaprice]

You forgot country music came from African Americans also.... In the Europeans did not invent the guitar that literally came from the banjo which was a West African instrument

[@Sozbirler]

instruments similar to guitar existed since ancient times,but modern guitars invented in Spain,by Europeans.

[@desm3225]

Little Richard and Chuck Berry invented Rock and Roll.

[@nataliewalters2759]

Actually Big Mamma Thornton

[@desm3225]

She played her guitar how she did, but the real sound of rock was from Chuck and Richard. ​@@nataliewalters2759

[@Noidonthaveadollar]

And both of them were known American Indians …. Not Africans .

[@desm3225]

@@Noidonthaveadollar LMAO What in the actual fuck?! LMAO 😂😂 Where the hell is that known? Last I checked, when I looked at them, they're BLACK as any other Black person I have ever seen. You fool. ​@Noidonthaveadollar

[@riccorich]

Also there is a difference of what's descent and what's a style made.. alot of things can be traced to Africa pretty much everything

[@QuatMan]

None of these styles trace to Aftica.

[@riccorich]

@@QuatMan u don't get it

[@QuatMan]

@@riccorich No you dont get it. None of these musical styles or their antecedants can be found in Africa as unique African creations. Not in the past and not now. These were all birthed in the USA.

[@riccorich]

@@QuatMan dude u are clueless u need to listen to the video

[@IK_MK]

@@QuatMan bro music isn't born, it evolves from predecessors 🤦🏾‍♂️ you really think the electric guitar would exist today without the creation of the lute, or any other older stringed instruments?

[@thezumblejack]

Hell yeah!

[@Nik-bu9fd]

The blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll

[@Maraudermarine0]

There once was once an Afro-American musician who somehow became sorta of a mythical legend since he never played guitar in his life but out of nowhere he became a God at the Guitar making some believe that he must've had done a deal with the devil and so he took it as his new Identity but unfortunately he's fame was Short lived I'm not sure how he died but he died somewhere around the Early 1900's Probably after 1910 I'm not sure but I've found his story quite interesting

[@theactualdice5865]

Robert Jonson?

[@Maraudermarine0]

@@theactualdice5865 yes Robert Johnson the devil of blues

[@jaxthewolf4572]

Robert Johnson met the crossroads man (I'm just telling a joke but referencing the black man at the crossroads, a figure in Hoodoo who gifts people with sudden talent should they meet him)

[@lucamcardle729]

African Diaspora Music was also influenced in Brazil and Cuba

[@77Creation]

Samba and Salsa, for sure.

[@DavidBennettPiano]

6:02 why is Springsteen placed alongside Elvis and Bill Haley? 😅 Springsteen wouldn’t come along for another 25 years!

[@PeaceNinja007]

-- Hello, everyone here. I'm not Black but there's a particular subsection of Black music which has tropical French-Caribbean origins of Afro descent that I absolutely love called ZOUK! I sense a hint of Latin vibes which makes sense being that the Caribbean islands are close to Latin America. It's not popular at all here in the US, in fact .. im probably the only idiot here who blasts this music in my car lol -- I have a genuine curiosity of what Black Americans think of this music. I know that modern Black American music tends to revolve around gangster rap Hip Hop .. which i'm not really a fan of.. but as i've mentioned before .. I can't get enough of ZOUK! --Here's one for reference. This is more of a modern sample, obviously this kind of music has existed for a while and has its fair share of older versions but for now, im only interested in th modern. It sounds awesome if you have a good sound system or headphones! .. Don't be a wuss .. listen to the whole thing .. it's not that long lol kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaG2iqt-iN2nhsk Share it with your friends and family to hear their thoughts as well!

[@major_kukri2430]

I'm Jamaican. This sounds like French-Caribbean dancehall.

[@PeaceNinja007]

@@major_kukri2430 I thought Zouk would be more popular in Jamaica .. being that they’re Caribbean

[@major_kukri2430]

@@PeaceNinja007 Well Jamaica's an english-speaking nation so theres a bit of a language barrier. Reggae and dancehall is more popular here.

[@PeaceNinja007]

@@major_kukri2430 I see. What about this one? I think the original is Reggae but this is a Zouk remix kzbin.info/www/bejne/jaemqoVuq5t7otk

[@PeaceNinja007]

@@major_kukri2430 i found this one in Jamaican Dancehall but i have in Zouk remix. I must admit that I like the Zouk version significantly more lol Zouk has more of a «flowing» tropical rhythm to it with a hint of Latin beats. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZaUo36oq5ioia8

[@anawkwardsweetpotato4728]

Excellent video!! Always happy to see videos shedding light on the all-too unspoken legacies of Afrodescendants. One thing, though, if I may: Rather than white people "getting in on the fun" during the turn of the century, I think it would be more accurate to say that they merely appropriated almost every African-American genre during the turn of the century. Elvis Presley is the face of rock and roll because he was white, even though equally talented and more authentic artists of African-American heritage existed before and during his time. Remember that white people (mainly referring to their institution, not every individual) essentially hated every ounce of talent that black people had until white musicians appropriated our genres (literally stealing tunes from black artists who couldn't perform or get record labels signed) and cash-cropped off of them. This same act of "save the product, not the producer" still happens today.

[@dylanswift5185]

There was and is a significant amount of blending.You can see how folk music from Irish immigrants or the songs from poor southerners impacted American culture and even black communities. As America has evolved, I've started noticing musical elements from Asian nations like India are gaining ground and slowly influencing popular music. I predict we'll also see developments in music originating from the rust belt. It's good to see that black artists are now capable of making huge amounts of money off of their successes unlike the days of rock n' roll. Too bad they still often make the same mistakes other celebrities make when it comes to finances.

[@jasonfromguitarcenter]

*2004-2012 Era Killswitch Engage Would Like To Know Your Location

[@Kaadjoisanavaliwithtoomuchtime]

all music is african music if you look back enough

[@themac9677]

Truer words never spoken

[@ashleyoasis7948]

Out of Africa theory had been debunked so many times

[@theactualdice5865]

All humans came from Ethiopia so all music is technically made solely from Ethiopian traditions.

[@3bydacreekside]

@@theactualdice5865 That's...what? You must be from Ethiopia

[@samuelskogqvist5565]

There's always a "WE WUZ" person in the comments on videos like these lol

[@BBarNavi]

And did you say that Funk was born from smooth beats and Pop Goes the Weasel?!

[@cheesecurd3499]

Pov you still listen to jazz