As we all know, the ancestors of African Americans were black slaves who were trafficked to North America from western Africa from the early 16th century to the end of the 19th century. The West African music at that time is the main source of today's African American music. Because no musicologists had conducted a systematic survey of West Africa at that time, we do not know much about the situation of West African music at that time. Since the 20th century, especially after the 1970s, many musicologists have investigated this area, giving us a deeper understanding of its contemporary folk music. Considering that contemporary folk music is the result of the inheritance and development of ancient folk music, we can refer to the folk music of West Africa today to speculate on the main characteristics of West African folk music from the 16th to 19th centuries. Shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s was the habitat of jazz in China. There were quite large-scale jazz performances and some high-level jazz musicians. But jazz at that time was mainly for dance hall. After decades of vicissitudes, jazz has almost disappeared in China, and a gap has appeared for nearly 40 years. This period was an important development stage for jazz. Jazz has long since broken away from the steady dance music form, and has integrated rich musical styles, cultural characteristics and performance skills. It has the charm, expressiveness and appeal of music itself, and has long been in the ranks of elegant art. Since the late 1980s, jazz has been reviving in China and gaining more and more room for development.

Blues music focuses on the ability of the performer and singer's "soul" to be connected with the music, that is, the ability to improvise. The use of major and minor seventh chords in his system, the scales of flat thirds and flat sevenths, as well as the guitar string bending techniques, had a profound influence on almost all contemporary pop music styles.

Hip-hop is the transliteration of hiphop, which refers to the fast-paced dance music style.

RAP is rap, which includes many rap methods, including Gangsta Rap, a powerful rap music type that adds rock (ROCK); and Hip Hop adds RNB to rap. The music type includes party-style music that rocks the hips, legs, and steps, and is very popular among young people! (It is very popular in Europe, America and South Korea!) In short, Hip Hop is a comprehensive music type that adds electronic dance music and RNB, and is more suitable for gatherings with many people. Rap, on the other hand, is relatively simple for rap, and the music is relatively simple.