Who benefits from music genres created by black artists?

Much of contemporary music and pop culture in the United States can be traced back to black and indigenous musicians.

However, his contributions have long gone unnoticed, and his songs have often been marketed to a largely white audience.

So how are musicians today working to undo that historical erasure? And how do they continue to celebrate black performance and art?

In In the frontMarc Lamont Hill sits down with Jake Blount, an award-winning musician and scholar specializing in early African-American folk music, and Mark Anthony Neal, distinguished professor of African and African-American studies at Duke University and author of several books, including them: What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture, to discuss the contributions and erasure of Black and Indigenous musicians.