[DOC] [TLE] 4.7: African Contribution to American Culture - The Slave Rebellion [PAR] Plantation slavery tended to acculturate West Africans relatively quickly, yet 
unwittingly ... Africans were able to successfully transfer their rice culture to the 
New World. .... The music consisted of two drums and a stringed instrument. ... 
For example, Africans are credited for bringing folk treatment for small pox, 
knowledge of... [DOC] [TLE] African Influences on the Development of Modern Western Music ... [PAR] Apr 25, 2013 ... The western world, though rich in its own cultural history, has developed in ... to 
consume the new world long after the colonial era, eventually Western music 
came ... Additionally, Native American string instruments are nonexistent. ... This 
is commonly credited to the Atlantic Slave Trade, which took Africans... [DOC] [TLE] Music of Latin America - Wikipedia [PAR] The music of Latin America refers to music originating from Latin America, 
namely the Romance-speaking countries and territories of the Americas and the 
Caribbean south of the United States. Latin American music also incorporates 
African music from slaves who were ..... Peruvian music is made up of indigenous
, Spanish and West African... [DOC] [TLE] The History of Jazz - The New York Times [PAR] A third black man, seated on the ground, plucks at a string instrument, the body of 
.... in bringing new immigrants, both black and white, to New Orleans: in 1805, 
alone, ... had been brought to America, most of them transported from West Africa
. ... In other locales, African elements in the slaves' music were discouraged or... [DOC] [TLE] The African Origin of the Modern Musical Instruments: From the ... [PAR] Sep 21, 2013 ... The Moors of West Africa, the Mauritanians, the so-called Negros who had ... to 
them (i.e. the slaves) is the Banjar, which they brought hither from Africa. ... that 
conquered and shared the Moorish lands in America between them. ... The 
hammered dulcimer is a stringed musical instrument with the strings... [DOC] [TLE] An Overview of the African-American Experience - Constitutional ... [PAR] In the mid-1500s, European mariners started bringing black Africans to America 
as slaves. ... West African slaves were usually prisoners of war, criminals, or the 
... In America, they were sold at auction to owners, who wanted them primarily as 
plantation workers. ... The banjo evolved from an African stringed instrument. [DOC] [TLE] Bringing The Banjo From 'Africa To Appalachia' : NPR [PAR] Oct 12, 2008 ... The two have collaborated on a new album called Africa to ... Originally, the 
banjo traveled across the ocean on slave ships coming from West Africa in ... The 
banjo in its current form has frets and employs a short droning string ... "Let's just 
face it: It's the hippest instrument, at least in my world," Stone says. [DOC] [TLE] The Banjo Faces Its Shadow | NewMusicBox [PAR] Dec 10, 2014 ... This is a timbre that cuts to some of the deepest seams of America's past. ... The 
banjo has its roots in West African instruments such as the ngoni, and ... African 
slaves on plantations in southern Maryland were documented ... a banjo on stage
, has been credited with adding a fifth string to the instrument. [DOC] [TLE] Category: Appalachia - Andy White Anthropology [PAR] Aug 10, 2016 ... The Earliest Known Depiction of a Banjo in North America ... Some of the things I 
bring up here may well be in the museum, somewhere. ... Appalachian 
Europeans from West Africans brought to the New World as slaves. ... As far as I'
m aware, the other stringed instruments that contribute to the distinctive... [DOC] [TLE] The History of African American Music - Dictionary definition of The ... [PAR] Some were able to bring musical instruments with them or build new ones in this 
... African music continued to flow into the New World as a result of the slave ... be 
traced back to West Africa, the blues, like the spiritual, is a product of slavery. .... a 
rhythm section consisting of piano, string bass, drums, and sometimes

Question: Slaves from western Africa are credited with bringing this stringed instrument to the New World
Answer: Banjo