  Its really so simple that even you should be able to understand that all peoples bring their indigenous forms of music with them from their homelands. When they arrive in a new home, their traditional music interacts with the music of other peoples to form new musical traditions. Irish and English music became Irish-American and Anglo-American music. West African music became African-American music. I agree with you that musical acculturation and assimilation did indeed take place. Without musical and other artistic amalgamations there would be no multiracial society today. The music of New Orleans was the first time that black and white Americans played together in bands. Buddy Bolden was playing music in bars that would later be named jass and then jazz at the exact same time as the Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band, around 1895. Who came first is irelevant to me but Bolden is credited with inventing jazz music.    Buddy Bolden is accredited with creating Jazz music by Blacks and most Jews. Now most White people will tell you the truth that it was Emile Stalebread Lacoume and his Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band, just because they were teenage kids people sometimes underestimate them but they were no ordinary kids these were hardened New Orleans street kids, they truly were the first Jazz. Buddy Bolden was a lowlife mother whoring pimp. (seriously). And Africans became assimilated to White Southern culture, they retained almost zero essential African ness, but whatever you think is true, arrrg! :rolleyes: Oh and who eventually named this music Jass? and Jazz? It was White guys! You had a Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band rip off around 1900-1901 who stole the RDSB's name figuring no one would notice they were imposters, but people did notice, and so they changed their name to the Razzy Dazzy JAZZY Band, this is the first instance of the word Jazz being used in recorded history. Then...the Original DixieLand Jazz Band was the first band to use the word JAZZ in their name, also the first Jazz band to record and were responsible for popularizing Jazz in NYC and Chicago, they were all White. Before they were the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, they were the Original Dixieland JASS Band, and before that...they were called Stein's Dixieland Jass Band(Stein was NOT a Jew by the way).     PS- Well obviously. But you see Afrika Bambata...When these people come to their new land as slaves....it's a little bit different. The slave owners purposely suppressed African culture among the slaves. They didn't want them to have an African identity, for the same reason the ZOG do not want us to have a White identity today, it's a danger to them. The slave owners suppressed all signs of retaining any African culture, they Westernized them on purpose to destroy their identity. Because someone with no real cultural identity is easier to control. It's easier to control someone when they have no ethnic pride or awareness. The slave owners knew this very well. Slave owners always suppress the slaves native culture, no matter what race or ethnicity the slave owners and slaves may be. The English were in Ireland oppressing the people and trying to suppress their native culture for decades upon decades, conquerers and slavers always try to destroy and suppress the conquered people's culture. It's easier to maintain control this way.