Influence On African American Culture

Food, music, clothes, language, they all have one thing in common having to be an influence that African American Communities have in the United States.The background story of African American in North America started as enslaved Africans brought to North America and forced into working as free labors. Coming into a continent completely different from what Africans were used to, they were forced to adapt to the western world. Working as free labors, Africans had a huge impact on the economy of North America, picking out cotton, and planting tobaccos and working on the farmland was an economic boost for the nation. The United States as a nation in its history has the majority of its influence revolving around the slavery time period and African American communities as a whole. Most of the culture that North America has come from somewhere else around the world, the United Staes as a whole has no original culture of it own. But African Americans have shaped the United States in many ways. Although Africans were taken out of their homelands, they still found ways to connect back to their roots. These ways include music, food, clothes, and language which have shaped the culture of …show more content…
The popularity of R&B song gave way for white music bands to make the cover of the original song dumbing down the raw message that those black artist wanted to get across for the white audience to better enjoy. In the mid-1950s, the same gentleman Alan Freed kept on playing his favorite black artists and the use of popular chart came in order to determine what music to play. Even in the south where there was racial tension the music genre was the only thing that didn’t face much of the tension rock and roll which is now just rock was something that brought both races together and it lasted through to the 20th