African-American music is a broad term covering a diverse range of musical genres largely developed by African Americans and their culture. Its origins...

groups of Africa. African Americans constitute the second largest ethno-racial group in the US after White Americans. The term "African American" generally...

continent. The music and dance of the African diaspora, formed to varying degrees on African musical traditions, include American music like Dixieland...

African-American culture, also known as Black American culture or Black culture in American English, refers to the cultural expressions of African Americans...

spiritual songs of African American churches and revival meetings, blues became the basis of gospel music. Modern gospel began in African American churches in...

spirituals, African American spirituals, Black spirituals, or spiritual music) is a genre of Christian music that is associated with African Americans, which...

Music of the African diaspora is a sound created, produced, or inspired by Black people, including African music traditions and African popular music...

immigrant Latinos, Puerto Rican music, Hawaiian music and African American music. The music of Irish- and Scottish-Americans will be a special focus, due...

term American folk music encompasses numerous music genres, variously known as traditional music, traditional folk music, contemporary folk music, vernacular...

Black Music Appreciation Month is an annual celebration of African-American music in the United States. It was initiated as Black Music Month by President...

African American Music receives $1 million from Regions, Mike Curb foundations". The Tennessean. Retrieved February 25, 2019. "African American music...

African popular music (also styled Afropop, Afro-pop, Afro pop or African pop), like African traditional music, is vast and varied. Most contemporary genres...

ISBN 9780939693269. Maultsby, Portia (1997). Africanisms in African-American Music. In A Turbulent Voyage: Readings in African American Studies. San Diego, CA: Collegiate...

of African American women in rap music videos may have health implications for viewers of such videos. In a survey study, adolescent African American women...

Dance and music were a big part of African society, and that tradition carried on in the diaspora. African American slaves also used dance and music as part...

of traditional Black gospel). Black Gospel music has been traditionally concerned with the African-American quest for freedom. It has provided both "spiritual...

An African American is a citizen or resident of the United States who has origins in any of the black populations of Africa. African American-related topics...

and Tyla. Early records of music in South Africa as well as Southern Africa indicate a fusion of cultural traditions: African, European and Asian. Modern...

Indigenous music of North America, which includes American Indian music or Native American music, is the music that is used, created or performed by Indigenous...

West African music incorporates greater use of drums such as the djembe. Contemporary styles of music in West Africa have been influenced by American music...

Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African-American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It...

all African Americans, nor are all of its speakers African American. As with most English varieties spoken by African Americans, African-American Vernacular...

not directly connected with African–American gospel music, they were adopted by African–Americans as well as white Americans, and Newton's connection with...

West African and Central African peoples with possible minor additional ancestry from Europe or indigenous Americans and other regions of Africa. As an...

ranging from African-American Vernacular English to a more standard American English. Like all widely spoken language varieties, African-American English shows...

Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues has incorporated...

gatherings, sporting events, children's rhymes, and most notably, in African-American music in its myriad forms and descendants. These include soul, gospel...

American popular music (also referred to as "American Pop") is popular music produced in the United States and is a part of American pop culture. Distinctive...

of the genre in 2016. "A distinctly African American music drawing from the deep tributaries of African American expressive culture, it is an amalgam...

disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community. Hip-hop music originated as an anti-drug and...