"The Cultural Diffusion of African Music in Modern day Mainstream American Culture"

In the 1600's, when slave-traders began to bring slaves and goods to the new colonies in America, they never knew they would be bringing along a culture rich in music and rituality. Many people thought that Africans were too simple minded to be able to have such things like culture, language or even sophisticated buildings. They looked over that all and plundered their knowledge, wealth and more importantly, their music. African Music had several different …

…music developed years from now will still have African roots. Whether it be rap or Gospel or Jazz, Blue or Rock, all have much correlation with African music and culture. Through the years, all the culture of Africa and the culture of Europe and America has diffused into these different genres of music that still remain popular to this day. The "simple-minded" Africans have given us more or less all of American cultures mainstream music.