How has African music influenced modern music today?
The single most area in which African music influenced modern music is with the use of drums.Rock’n’Roll rythmns as we know them today have been used for centuries in African tribal dance use.If you were able to travel back in time 200 years you would most probably hear all the rock rythmns that we know today. The coming of slaves to America and before that England brought the African rythmns to the western countries.Largely ignored in the early years because of segregation and the white population regarding African influenced music as “jungle music” or “Devil Music”. It slowly became accepted in the early part of the 20th century which brought about the birth of Jazz and Blues in America.
