A brief bulleted rundown of Afroamerican culture (broad and sub) -- including but not limited to the following:   *** Music ***  • Work Songs • Negro Spirituals • Fife and Drum • Gospel • Ragtime • Jug/Washboard Bands • Blues -- key styles: Country Blues, Jump Blues, Chicago Blues • Jazz -- key styles: Dixieland, Swing, Bebop, Avant-Garde, Cool Jazz, Fusion, Smooth Jazz • Zydeco • Rhythm &amp; Blues • Rock &amp; Roll • Soul • Funk • Disco • Hip Hop (rapping, turntabilism, beatboxing) -- key styles: Hip Hop, Electro, Jazz-Rap, Westcoast Rap, Bass Music, New Jack Swing, Southern Rap • House • Techno  Genres created by others with roots in the above:  - Country {whitified/Anglo-Celtic Blues music} - BlueGrass {whitified/Anglo-Celtic Blues music w/Jazz} - Jamaican Ska &amp; Reggae {native Calypso music w/ Blues, R&amp;B, Jazz, Rock, and Soul} - Brazilian Bossa Nova {Samba w/ Jazz (Cool) influences} - Cuban Mambo and Cuban/Rican Salsa {Afro-Cuban rhythms w/ R&amp;B and Jazz (Swing, Big Band, and Bebop)} - many more worldwide genres and styles  • Afroamerican musical instruments (banjo, gourd fiddle, tambourines, drum kit)    *** Dance ***  • Ring Dance/Shout • Shuckin' &amp; Jivin' (Shuffling) • Cakewalk • Tap Dance, Buck-and-Wing • Black Bottom • Charleston • Jitterbug • Lindy Hop, Swing Dance • Vogue • Popping -- key styles: Animation, Boogaloo, Roboting, Tutting, Liquid • Locking • Breakdancing • Line Dancing • Gangsta Walk/Jooking (Memphis) • Jit (Detroit) • Gigging (Oakland) • Krump • Beating Feet (Washington DC) • C-walking • Modern African American Dance • various other individual dances and moves    *** Food ***  • Soulfood • Louisiana Creole cuisine • Crawfish (Louisiana) • Watermelon • various seafood traditions along the Gulf Coast and Southeastern shore    *** Art, Film, &amp; Literary ***  • Slave narratives • Afroamerican Folk Tales • Harlem Renaissance • Afroamerican quilts • Beat Poetry • Blaxploitation • Afroamerican art style • Black publications (Chicago Defender, Jet, Ebony, ect) • Graffiti • Afroamerican hair art    *** Hair &amp; Fashion ***  • Head wrappings • Zoot Suits • Hair perm and hotcomb • African-inspired (dashikis, kufis, red/black/green, etc) • NUMEROUS hair styles and traditions (Conk, Blowout Afro, Hi-top fade, Jherri curl, Wrap, Afroamerican braiding, Locs, etc) • various Hip Hop clothing styles    *** Games &amp; Sport ***  • Boxing dominance • Baseball Negro Leagues • innovation and dominance in Basketball • innovation and dominance in Football • dominance in Track &amp; Field (sprints and jumps) • innovation in Ropes and Double Dutch • Miss Black America • Craps • Afroamerican folklore (Br'er Rabbit, Hairy Man, John Henry, Marie Laveau, Stagger Lee, etc) • various children's games and rhymes    *** Political/Societal &amp; Intellectual ***  • Slavery and sharecropping • Free Persons of Color • Underground Railroad &amp; Slave Revolts • Black Abolitionism (Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, etc) • Civil Rights (WEB DuBois, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, etc) • Black Conservatism • Black Power (Black Panther Party) • Wartime (US Colored Troops, Buffalo Soldiers, Harlem Hellfighters, Tuskegee Airmen, etc) • Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) • Harlem Renaissance • Black Wall Street (and various other all-black communities) • Afroamerican debate style • Pan-Africanism &lt;arguably&gt; • Afrocentrism    *** Religion ***  • African Methodist Episcopal (AME) • Church of God in Christ (COGIC) • Pentecostalism • Gospel music &amp; Spirituals • Nation of Islam • Black Hebrew Israelites • Hoodoo traditions • Afroamerican preaching style • Testifying • Holy Ghost Dance • Speaking in tounges • other various unique Christian practices and traditions • various metaphysical ideologies    *** Social ***  • Juke Joint • Black Greek-Letter Sororities and Fraternities • Black Masons, Eastern Stars • Family Reunion    *** Observances, Traditions, &amp; Festivals ***  • Juneteenth • Second Lining (New Orleans) • Black History Month • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day • Malcolm X Day • Church-related celebrations (Men's Day, Women's Day, Youth Day, Pastor's Appreciation Day, etc) • Kwanzaa • Black Expo • Sisterhood Showcase • FreakNik, Black Bike Week • Greek Fest • unique Afroamerican naming patterns (French and Arabic influenced)    *** Language ***  • African American Vernacular English (Southern American English w/ africanisms) • Gullah Sea Island Creole English • Louisiana Creole • multitudes of slang terms    *** Sub-Cultures ***  • Gullah/Geechee (South Carolina and Georgia coasts) • Creole (Louisiana) • Black Native Americans (Seminole, Shinnecock, Narragansett, Cherokee, etc)• Black Bourgeoisie/Blue Vein • Gangbanging (Black Stones, Gangster Disciples, Crips, Bloods, etc) • Hip Hop My Lord where to start...(black)Gospel was the Black version of White Christian(white gospel) hymns. Blues was the Black's interpretation of White Country music, the Blues is a White phrase to begin with, the creation of Jazz was heavily influenced by Whites and was played with White instruments. Rock N' Roll is is no way a Black originated musical genre. Neither is Zydeco , zydeco is Cajun, Cajun's are White, just because alot of Blacks play Zydeco does not mean it's a black musical genre. White hillbillies started the original jug bands. Techno music was not invented by Blacks , the electonica/techno sound originated in the 70s in Germany and the Netherlands with groups like Kraftwerk, not in the 80s with Juan Atkins and the Belleville 3 as Blacks like to claim(although I am a fan of Juan Atkins&the Belleville 3, I have met them).:rolleyes: The Banjo is not really an African instrument,  Country and Bluegrass music was around long before the Blues,  etc... here is a good link that has to do with this subject , alot of good information on here, enjoy.  https://www.stormfront.org/forum/show...474681p19.html     Soulfood? What exactly do you mean by that? You mean like fried chicken and bbq ribs? Because that is in no way African or Black. It's southern, Blacks stole southern culture and claimed it as their own.    Creole cuisine? Creoles are WHITE. Real Creoles(Whites) don't consider Blacks to be Creole. That's why Black Creoles call themselves Creoles of Color Gumbo, Jambalaya..it's all of White origin. Sorry, try again.    How in the world are crawfish a Black invention???    Watermelon is a Black invention??? No, you guys just like you some watermelon doh. mmm mm.:p       As far as I know the original Beatniks were JEWS. Not Black,sorry.     Zoot suits are chicano aka MEXICAN. Sorry, try again.    Blacks did not invent the perm:rolleyes:     Where is all of this innovation in all of these sports? How did you Blacks innovate our White sports like basketball and football?? Other than the slam dunk. Craps is Black? I doubt that. Blacks are not dominant in all of these sports either, it's just that Blacks spend all day down in da hood playing sports because they know the only way they will ever be successful is either sports, rap, or crime. Whites have better things to do than play with their balls all day :cool:     Various children's games like what?? For instance???     Yes! the Blacks invented slavery!!:roflAnd sharecropping...NO.    The Jews started the civil rights movement. Sorry, try again.    The juke joint was a spin off of the WHITE Honky Tonks. Which were basically the predecessor of the modern day nightclubs. Ever wonder why Blacks call Whites honkys?? Because they were always hangin' out in the Honky Tonks.    Blacks invented the family reunion? pshaw.     Once again my confused friend, CREOLES ARE WHITE, SO ARE CAJUNS.  I swear to God you are retarded, since when are Cherokees and Seminoles Black??? They most certainly are not, just because there are Blacks who may have some Cherokee or Seminole ancestry does not mean Cherokee and Seminole are Black. I should know...I have a touch of Seminole ancestry myself! They sure aren't Black Buster Brown!      YES ! Thank you for inventing gang banging we couldn't live without it!! By the way the original street gangs were White, (eg. Irish, Italians etc...) Sorry we even beat you to that! And the first known drive by in America was committed in Harlem(back when Harlem was a White Irish/Italian neighborhood) by an Irish renegade gangster by the name of Vincent Mad Dog Coll, sorry, you guys didn't even originate the drive by. The Irish and Italian bootleggers did(the real gangsters). Beat ya to it.       