Unlike the british slave owners the French allowed black to practised thier traditions like dance and music. That is why the great american music forms lioke Jazz, blue and rockn 'n' rock evolved in New orleans. Nothing of significance came out the british territories. First of all Rock music and Blues did not come out of New Orleans:rolleyes: They came out of Appalachia, Scots-Irish. The reason Jazz comes from New Orleans is because no where else in America did you have the confluence of French and Spanish people and their music. Like Jelly Roll Moron always said, you can't have Jazz without that Latin Tinge the Latin tinge was the Spanish rhythm. The Jazz rhythm is Latin, not African. Latin=White, in this case Spanish. Like I keep telling you man, the Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band WAS the first Jazz band and they were all White, they are being robbed of the credit they deserve. Emile Stalebread Lacoume's gravestone even says he was the leader of the first Jazz band, because he was. Buddy Bolden wasn't the first Jazz, during his lifetime no one even knew who he was, only negros and mulatto mongrels down in the ghetto knew who some Buddy Bolden was. But on the other hand the RDSB was very well known and popular in New Orleans at the time, and they were playing improvised jazz music on the street corners and outside of all the bars and clubs in Storyville before Buddy Bolden ever even started playing improvised ragtime music.     Hey look what the famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak said in an interview about the negro music upon visiting America........     I found that the music of the negroes and of the Indians was practically identical, and that  the music of the two races bore a remarkable similarity to the  music of Scotland . [4] [5]  Most historians agree that Dvořák is referring to the  pentatonic scale , which is typical of each of these musical traditions. [6]     Yes, he thought the American negro music sounded remarkably like the music of Scotland, as it should have since they were completely assimilated into White culture.  ;)    PS- I never realized Country, Bluegrass, and American Folk music were of no significance by the way. I think I'm going to have to disagree with that, because after all, without those forms of music there never would have been the Blues music or Rock either.