Скачать или смотреть The African Roots of Reggae, Salsa & Calypso Nobody Talks About

Reggae's offbeat rhythm. Salsa's call-and-response. Calypso's steel drums. All African.

When enslaved Africans were forced across the Atlantic, they carried something colonizers couldn't steal: their music. Drums, rhythms, and vocal traditions became the foundation of Caribbean music—yet history books rarely credit this influence.

🎶 African Elements in Caribbean Music:
• Call-and-response singing (West African tradition)
• Steel drums trace directly to African percussion
• Reggae's offbeat rhythm = African polyrhythmic roots
• Salsa's complex percussion patterns = Yoruba drumming
• Calypso's storytelling = West African griot tradition

This isn't "influence"—it's survival, resistance, and cultural genius under unimaginable oppression. From the Middle Passage to Bob Marley, African musical DNA runs through every Caribbean beat.

💬 Which Caribbean genre do you think has the strongest African roots? Drop your answer! 👇

#AfricanMusic #CaribbeanMusic #ReggaeHistory #SalsaMusic #CalypsoMusic #BlackHistory #MusicHistory #DecolonizeMusic #CulturalHeritage #AfricanDiaspora