African music came to the west with slaves. Long story short, everyone loved it. Syncopation, blues scales, chord progressions and so many awesome tunes and melodies. This has ultimately exploded out through, and mixed with almost the entire planet. From legends like Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis showing what can be done to Led Zeppelin, Herbie Hancock and Jimmy Hendrix discovering the electric world. Right up to modern pop, rock, K-pop, rap, African influences are used in almost all modern music in one way or another.
True Africa did contribute to a lot of popular music, but you may or may not be surprised the trad English, Irish and Scottish music is loaded with syncopation, pentatonics, micro tones, and call and response. All this met up in the North America and fortified and built on it self. Then there is Central Europe, but we’ll leave that for another time.
Obviously American music has deep roots in both the British Isles and African music. But acknowledging the African influences on "black American" music and the music genres pioneered or influenced by them doesn't negate that fact, and is a separate conversation. Do you know any TH-cam videos of British and Irish traditional music, that display all those characteristics said by musicologist to have been brought into black American music from Africa?
@user-vw6bk4pb4l th-cam.com/video/FvQub_Mg7eg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=JCEm-XJW-u90MUeI th-cam.com/video/aEVmW7fEa8Q/w-d-xo.htmlsi=7HQt5Tp5IxoeuZcj th-cam.com/video/XX_IDyLdHFY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ELVYLwwR2PGsWB78 Here are a few examples of things that the irish and european immigrants brought over with them. Not denying the african influence, just gotta remember these american musics tend to form into hybrids. It is a melting pot after all
true am from Africa Malawi and this band its from Malawi never heard about Jug Band but i just got to them and listen them i like them its very very much similar
African music has ultimately come to influence and shape much of Western music that so dominates the world now. Imagine you're a regular white dude chilling in the 1800''s. You think "man, this centuries old church hymn sure is catchy". Then one day you walk by people playing this. Their minds must have been blown, which explains why African influences pervade almost all modern music.
@@TheGreatMoonFrogYou think you're complimenting them, but really you're saying that they haven't musically developed in 200 years 😂 White boy trying to be woke but your deep seated white privilege can't be hidden, you're inherently racist and you don't even know it
Wow! Amazing rhythms and harmonies not to mention the skill needed to play these instruments and creative ingenuity to make them! I can hear a definite likeness in the first tune to Cripple Creek. Thanks Don for passing this on to me and have a happy Birthday! Liz Nichol
Buffalo New Yorker Bluegrass is much different than blues; but it seems bluegrass may have been more heavily inspired by African roots music than Irish music. I think that's what this person is saying. most people believe that bluegrass is strictly a white person thing.
@@jaxthewolf4572 I think that’s both right and wrong? It’s right in the sense that the banjo we know today is from slaves but the akonting is from Africa. A banjo like instrument.
The music is IT. But, yo have to eat. Another good thing is that these guys would feel a sense of being appreciated. Money doesn't ruin... it's when money sucks you in
Isso comprova que os 'negros', com carinho e no bom sentido, são criativos, ênios, a música já está na alma, etc., imaginem se tivessem instrumentos de primeira geração, são especiais, afinados ao estremo, gostei. maneco - Porto Alegre-RS -Braasil.
Black Americans brought this sound to America along with the Banjo instrument which is now considered Country/Bluegrass music and they get no credit for it at all. SMFH
@ippos_khloros Gonna have to disagree with you on this not sounding like bluegrass or old time music. I'm really not sure what old time or bluegrass music you've been listening to lol. Other than that, you're right about bluegrass (As well as old time) having many different influences, including influence from both African and European traditions.
Much Chikondi for Malawi. Akim Chirwa, President of the Baptist convention of Malawi came to Seminary School in U.S. and he and my family became great friends. His 3 children were the same age as me and my brother and sister. They even lived with us for quite some time. He is now back in Africa and is battling cancer. Please help him. He is a great man and it is so sad that he is going through this tough time. Please find the love to give if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/cancer-treatment-for-akim-chirwa
Homemade instruments like these are very inspiring. Nothing stops the flowing of music.
Amazing musicians, very refreshing music.❤
African music came to the west with slaves. Long story short, everyone loved it. Syncopation, blues scales, chord progressions and so many awesome tunes and melodies. This has ultimately exploded out through, and mixed with almost the entire planet. From legends like Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis showing what can be done to Led Zeppelin, Herbie Hancock and Jimmy Hendrix discovering the electric world. Right up to modern pop, rock, K-pop, rap, African influences are used in almost all modern music in one way or another.
True Africa did contribute to a lot of popular music, but you may or may not be surprised the trad English, Irish and Scottish music is loaded with syncopation, pentatonics, micro tones, and call and response. All this met up in the North America and fortified and built on it self. Then there is Central Europe, but we’ll leave that for another time.
Obviously American music has deep roots in both the British Isles and African music. But acknowledging the African influences on "black American" music and the music genres pioneered or influenced by them doesn't negate that fact, and is a separate conversation.
Do you know any TH-cam videos of British and Irish traditional music, that display all those characteristics said by musicologist to have been brought into black American music from Africa?
@user-vw6bk4pb4l th-cam.com/video/FvQub_Mg7eg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=JCEm-XJW-u90MUeI
th-cam.com/video/aEVmW7fEa8Q/w-d-xo.htmlsi=7HQt5Tp5IxoeuZcj
th-cam.com/video/XX_IDyLdHFY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ELVYLwwR2PGsWB78
Here are a few examples of things that the irish and european immigrants brought over with them. Not denying the african influence, just gotta remember these american musics tend to form into hybrids. It is a melting pot after all
Wow so proud of my African heritage. The blues is our African music. Listen to Black American jug band music and you'll see.
There are different types of blues but it has an african influence from the Senegambia region
@@jasminepearls1047 but orighinal blues was originated by African Americans in Louisiana.
true am from Africa Malawi and this band its from Malawi never heard about Jug Band but i just got to them and listen them i like them its very very much similar
First thing i thought, This reminds me of an old Jug band.
@@omartistry actually from Mississippi
Their music culture deserve so much more credit. They can take a 5 note song and turn it into pure joy.
_They can take a 5 note song and turn it into pure joy_
Just like AC/DC and most punk rock bands ;)
African music has ultimately come to influence and shape much of Western music that so dominates the world now. Imagine you're a regular white dude chilling in the 1800''s. You think "man, this centuries old church hymn sure is catchy". Then one day you walk by people playing this. Their minds must have been blown, which explains why African influences pervade almost all modern music.
Mixed with jigs and reels as well as Scottish Psalms call and response singing and it starts to make sense.
@@TheGreatMoonFrogYou think you're complimenting them, but really you're saying that they haven't musically developed in 200 years 😂
White boy trying to be woke but your deep seated white privilege can't be hidden, you're inherently racist and you don't even know it
It's scary how closely this resembles early string band music...absolutely beautiful music
People are people, maybe we are one big family :)
It sounds like zydeco 😂😂😂
I believe this is African Bluegrass music... I wish those bluegrass folks from the US would see this....this is wonderful,simply awesome...
It’s not bluegrass this is African folk, bluegrass and other American music has influence from this
These bands were more common in some empires and more developed places in Africa through out the 1500s
the essence of music in my opinion, perfectly played from the heart and soul!
This ranks best video on youtubes platform superb excellence an awesome.
Now this is music,proud malawian..u can ignore the message but appreciate the art
Love the big bass banjo from the 1st clip!
Same to me. Too much enjoyment
Origin of country music
Doesn't sound Country at all. The instrument originated there but not country music.
@@pamelaolson5614Yes, it is. Elvis = Blues. But White. But...
Credits... about this
Wow! Amazing rhythms and harmonies not to mention the skill needed to play these instruments and creative ingenuity to make them! I can hear a definite likeness in the first tune to Cripple Creek. Thanks Don for passing this on to me and have a happy Birthday! Liz Nichol
Kkklkkk wow that's my warm heart of Africa Malawi. Mwanikumbuska kale lane. Keep up guys. Mngoni wa ku mpoto Mzimba
So beautiful , Music is the best remedy for problems
Real Malawian music...big up
It's real music! It has feellin' 'n' soul... Great!
wonderful rhythms !
loving those harmonies❤️✌🏽
Damn Love this. Proudly Malawian right now
This does something to your soul
Fantastic!
Woot cool to see you here
Fast!!
wow...
Thats some stuff...keeping sticks with string in tune
...pretty amazing
This is amazing!!
Beautiful. It sounds like like bluegrass meets Africa.
I guess you didn't get the memo. My African forefathers brought the Blues to this country.
Sounds similar to latin music
Buffalo New Yorker Bluegrass is much different than blues; but it seems bluegrass may have been more heavily inspired by African roots music than Irish music. I think that's what this person is saying. most people believe that bluegrass is strictly a white person thing.
Slant Six Latin music has heavy African influence as well
@@slantsix6344 where do you think most latin genres have they roots from?
Iyi nde malawa ❤
That drum kit in the last song got me mesmerized.
Look how fast their hands are moving!😮
Grandes musicos expressando sua cultural atraveis de sua musica ! Parabéns
what a cool groove. Most people don't know the banjo is from Africa.
A common misconception, it's from Africans enslaved in America, it wasn't created in Africa
@@jaxthewolf4572 I think that’s both right and wrong? It’s right in the sense that the banjo we know today is from slaves but the akonting is from Africa. A banjo like instrument.
I loved every second of that
fantastic !!
This is what music is about. These guys are IT !! I only wish I could send them $ via Paypal !!!!
+Paul Adams $ will ruin this music :)
The music is IT. But, yo have to eat. Another good thing is that these guys would feel a sense of being appreciated. Money doesn't ruin... it's when money sucks you in
+Paul Adams Great answer, thank you :)
Director HFerreira You can contact malamusimoya@yahoo.com he is the one who recorded the videos and am sure he has their details.
..fantasticos ..Buena descarga...
Music, the Universal language!
Oh man this is amazing
Great God , this so awesome, love my roots
I give you, guys, 5 stars
Awesome. 🪕
Magic.
Pure joy
Isso comprova que os 'negros', com carinho e no bom sentido, são criativos, ênios, a música já está na alma, etc., imaginem se tivessem instrumentos de primeira geração, são especiais, afinados ao estremo, gostei. maneco - Porto Alegre-RS -Braasil.
Wow !!! Zakwathu. Ine kumva kukoma
Malawi lost it musically when it abandoned this home-made banjo. The style and sound was unique. Our own jug music
wow so unique and beautiful song
That was very enjoyable. Thank you.
Meisterhaft👋
Love it, how old is this recording ?
that slaps so fuckin hard.
gas can banjo
LOVE IT
J West there is soo much energy .its like a superfood for the ears..makes the heart sing :D
Awesome :)
Black Americans brought this sound to America along with the Banjo instrument which is now considered Country/Bluegrass music and they get no credit for it at all. SMFH
👍🏼👏🏼👍🏼👏🏼👍🏼👏🏼👍🏼👏🏼
Paddle faster. I hear banjos!! :)
And hippos... So many hippos...
Very festival party tonight
amazing what you can do with a gas can and a 1X2...wow
Damn I wish I could learn banjo from that guy in the second song. I'm not even sure what he's doing. It's not the old clawhammer pattern.
This is where blue grass music comes from, not Appalachia!
@ippos_khloros Gonna have to disagree with you on this not sounding like bluegrass or old time music. I'm really not sure what old time or bluegrass music you've been listening to lol. Other than that, you're right about bluegrass (As well as old time) having many different influences, including influence from both African and European traditions.
The guitar guy is very serious
Rhythm
💕 🎶
Tabs?
Mr. Paul Adams, Send to my account I will give the musicians, but you should indicate which group you want to support.
Moya Malamusi
The Kifness should remix this.
Jug Bands
Quelqu'un a les paroles ?
3:35-3:40
Much Chikondi for Malawi. Akim Chirwa, President of the Baptist convention of Malawi came to Seminary School in U.S. and he and my family became great friends. His 3 children were the same age as me and my brother and sister. They even lived with us for quite some time. He is now back in Africa and is battling cancer. Please help him. He is a great man and it is so sad that he is going through this tough time. Please find the love to give if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/cancer-treatment-for-akim-chirwa
Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue ...
Some rapper should collaborate with some of these guys....before Paul Simon does...
Pelu Maad they just need to be left alone to be what they are. they are perfect.
Please God, let no one "gansta" this. 8-j
@Anne Jackson "You whites?" That might begin to sound... racist. Anyway, I'll go with what "omagine" wrote, thanks for your concern.
(And I appreciate Pelu Maad's sense of humor.)
5:45 the next meal walks by....
They aren't exactly advanced in the creation of melodies.
Sir Eugene Courtney that's a lie for real they're very creative