If you work in music, you’ll have most likely drawn your ability to create directly from the African diaspora at least once, and most likely more often. Nearly, if not every genre of recorded popular music of today largely owes much of its DNA to the secular evolution and outgrowth of Negro spirituals. These were also responsible for jazz, the theoretical and applied underpinnings of which are taught in every pretty much every contemporary music program around the world. Rap can easily be traced