@orpheus10
<<It stands to reason that some of those rhythms and dances no longer exist on the continent of Africa, but only exist in this hemisphere because the entire village was transported over here on a slave ship>>
This is more reasonable than your previous blanket statement that raised so many hackles: "the musical soul of Sub Sahara Africa sailed away on a slave ship."
That musical soul is still there - it is featured weekly on WPFW in DC. You're imagining that village-based musical cultures were wiped out and that nothing was left of West African music. But that "musical soul" was deeply ingrained across that entire swath of the continent. Sure, individual villages were decimated, but the centuries-old musical culture survived.
<<It stands to reason that some of those rhythms and dances no longer exist on the continent of Africa, but only exist in this hemisphere because the entire village was transported over here on a slave ship>>
This is more reasonable than your previous blanket statement that raised so many hackles: "the musical soul of Sub Sahara Africa sailed away on a slave ship."
That musical soul is still there - it is featured weekly on WPFW in DC. You're imagining that village-based musical cultures were wiped out and that nothing was left of West African music. But that "musical soul" was deeply ingrained across that entire swath of the continent. Sure, individual villages were decimated, but the centuries-old musical culture survived.