African American Music

Throughout history African American music has significantly altered the course of our country the United States of America. Starting during the spread of Africans as slaves the music of the cultures of Africa have come together and blended to help transform the music of the past into the music that most Americans listen to today including selections such as hip pop, r&b, and rap. Slaves thought they may have been, these first Africans helped shape the culture that we live in.
During the African Diaspora, when slaves from the east Africa's were brought to India and the Americas, much of the music was tribal hymns and religious chants. Used as a way to communicate long distance or messages to mass crowds, African music has a quality of pure volume over the other music being brought to America. The instruments of African decent mostly consisted of the bells, drums and rattles. While the music at first was used as a form of communication between tribes that could not linguistically under...