In 1970, he played a benefit show at the Guthrie Theatre organized by Minneapolis's black establishment to show the range and history of Afro-American music.

Klezmer music had always been a fusion of old and new world traditions, Polish dance tunes and jazz, Jewish tradition and Afro-American contemporary popular music.

Character in her singing comes to life through reference to the inflections and tone of the spirituals and Afro-American popular music she sings so vividly.

But that was before the impact of Afro-American popular music.

To give an overview of Afro-American music, Mr. Lee, a tenor saxophonist, has reunited many of the people who were in the original show.

A further development was the evolution of the blues ballad, which mixed the genre with Afro-American music.

From this he draws the conclusion that Afro-American music could be traced back to the area between the Senegal River and southern Guinea.

In 2001, the trio reconstituted itself again around Afro-American music, with musicians from the Minneapolis scene, for the album Something in Common.

This type of interaction is typical of the call and response of West African and Afro-American music and dance.

The identity reflected in Afro-American music and dance is to some extent an appropriated one.