Many genres of popular music like blues, jazz, salsa and rumba derive to varying degrees on musical traditions from Africa, rythms and sounds that have subsequently been adopted by more neoteric genres like rock and rhythm and blues.
Many genres of popular music like blues, jazz, salsa and rumba derive to varying degrees on musical traditions from Africa, taken to the Americas by African slaves. These rythms and sounds that have subsequently been adapted by newer genres like rock and rhythm and blues.