Music That Would Not Exist Without Black People

Besides basically all of them... #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM Check Out BuzzFeed On SnapChat Discover! - http://bit.ly/1NG8LV3 Check out more awesome videos at BuzzFeedVideo! http://bit.ly/YTbuzzfeedvideo MUSIC Dirty Money Speedy Sam Keep Rolling Gran Torino Old New School Licensed via Audio Network Footage provided by VideoBlocks http://vblocks.co/x/BuzzFeedYouTube Made by STSF www.buzzfeed.com/videoteam STILLS Something’s Fishy Fuse / Thinkstock.com B.B. King Early Portrait Michal Ochs Archives / Getty Images Reverend Pearly Brown Performs At The 'Ham & Egg Show' Ed Clark / Getty Images Cream GAB Archive / Getty Images Mississippi John Hurt Robert R. McElroy / Getty Images Muddy Waters Val Wilmer / Getty Images Rolling Stones Mark and Colleen Hayward / Getty Images Photo of AMERICAN FOLK BLUES FESTIVAL and Skip JAMES Chris Morphet / Getty Images Photo of Charlie Parker Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images Dizzy Gillespie Allan Grant / Getty Images Photo of Dizzy Gillespie Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images Photo of Duke ELLINGTON Gilles Petard / Getty Images Ellington Performs Gjon Mili / Getty Images Jazz Musicians Hulton Archive / Getty Images Jazz Chicago History Museum / Getty Images Wally Rose At The Tin Angel Nat Farbman / Getty Images Montgomery Brothers Sam Falk / Getty Images Jitterbug Dancers Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images 1950s, U.S.A., Jitterbug Dancing Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images Jazz Club Dancers Charles Hewitt / Getty Images Louis Armstrong Eliot Elisofon / Getty Images A Harlem street scene in the 1920s New York Daily News Archive / Getty Images Big Mama Thorton Val Wilmer / Getty Images Chuck Berry Portrait Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images Elvis Presley Hulton Archive / Getty Images Fats Domino Recording Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images Howlin’ Wolf Portrait Session SG Schoenfeld / Getty Images Louis Jordan George Pickow / Getty Images Photo of Louis JORDAN Gilles Petard / Getty Images Ray Charles Portrait In NY Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images Wynonie Harris Gilles Petard / Getty Images Photo of FUNKADELIC Echoes / Getty Images Paul Natkin Archive Paul Natkin / Getty Images James Brown Performs At Wembley Arena in London Peter Still / Getty Images Photo of KOOL & THE GANG GAB Archive / Getty Images Photo of Miles DAVIS David Redfern / Getty Images Photo of SLY & The FAMILY STONE GAB Archive / Getty Images Photo of Stevie WONDER RB / Getty Images Disco David Redfern / Getty Images Couple Disco Dancing Hulton Archive / Getty Images Oxford ’88-90 UniversalImagesGroup / Getty Images Africa Bambaataa at The Venue, London. 23.11.1982 UniversalImagesGroup / Getty Images An asian man throwing shapes on the dance floor, Talking Loud, Dingwalls, London 1988-1990 UniversalImagesGroup / Getty Images A group of ravers in the queue at The Trip at Astoria, London 1988 UniversalImagesGroup / Getty Images Clubbers Dancing at Leigh Bowery's club Taboo, London, UK, 1986 UniversalImagesGroup / Getty Images Ravers on the dancefloor at The Trip at Astoria, London 1988 UniversalImagesGroup / Getty Images Clubbers at Leigh Bowery's club Taboo UniversalImagesGroup / Getty Images Two girls having fun in a club. Wembley, UK Fresh, London, UK, 1986. UniversalImagesGroup / Getty Images VIDEO Film Footage courtesy of Archive.org Used with Permission Film Footage courtesy of Shutterstock, Inc. Used with Permission SOURCES http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1917beyond/essays/jazz.htm http://americasmusic.tribecafilminstitute.org/session/view/swing-jazz http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_parker_charlie.htm http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_ellington_duke.htm http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_gillespie_dizzy.htm http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6480128/dave-davies-kinks-origins-technology-interview http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15333469 http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/history_of_jazz.htm http://www.pbs.org/theblues/classroom/essaysblues.html http://www.wwnorton.com/college/music/jazz/ch/07/outline.aspx http://nmaam.org/rock-roll-b/ http://www.nysun.com/arts/who-really-invented-rock-n-roll/2037/ https://rockhall.com/inductees/louis-jordan/bio/ http://www.britannica.com/art/funk https://books.google.com/books?id=6Vy26TGdauEC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=flea+dizzy+gillespie&source=bl&ots=CRn_exFJAz&sig=AV-GV6xv68AZOkI5_tGkkfW9v4E&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwipysvSkMjKAhVC9WMKHfylB9YQ6AEIPDAG#v=onepage&q=flea%20dizzy%20gillespie&f=false http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/frankie-knuckles-godfather-of-house-music-dead-at-59-20140401 GET MORE BUZZFEED: www.facebook.com/buzzfeedvideo www.instagram.com/buzzfeedvideo www.youtube.com/buzzfeedyellow www.youtube.com/buzzfeedblue www.youtube.com/buzzfeedviolet