The National Museum of African American History and Culture is a place where all Americans can learn about the richness and diversity of the African American experience, what it means to their lives, ...

and the rich African musical heritage that they carried with them was part of the foundation of a new American musical culture that mixed African traditions with those of Europe and the Americas.

On the islands off the coast of Georgia, the Gullah Geechee culture of ex ... crucial moment when West African and Anglo-Celtic music began to mix and created the American music we have today.