>>18465184
Cultural fusion of European-origin musical traditions and African-origin musical traditions

>>18465184
There’s something about Celtic and African music which really connects with the primal soul of all humans. Combine that shit together and you have crack in musical form. This is why American music will dominate forever even as its imperial majesty and film dominance fades.

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>>18465184
I would say these are the Big 3:
Jazz was a product of French horns.
Country grew out of English and Scots-Irish folk music.
Blues came from hymns, work songs, and folk music. It morphed into RnB and other varieties.
Rock came from speeding up Blues and Country, the signature distortion sound came from an influential recording of RnB song "Rocket 88" by Ike Turner having to use a busted amp.
Mix and match these to get most genres in the U.S. today.
If you want to include Hip-Hop, apparently that comes from Jamaicans in NYC introducing a type of live performance of spoken word over a record called Toasting they brought to the U.S.

While much American music came from the South, the big cities of the northeast spawned the commercial music industry, first with publishing and sheet music and later with recording. Even minstrel shows, which mimicked southern black folk music, started in northeastern cities. First old stock Americans, then Irish, Jews, Italians and other immigrants kept feeding the pop music machine. It’s seen as less soulful and authentic than downhome roots derived music but Tin Pan Alley style pop is just another stream of American music.

>>18465542
>If you want to include Hip-Hop, apparently that comes from Jamaicans in NYC introducing a type of live performance of spoken word over a record called Toasting they brought to the U.S.
True, and there were also some U.S. influences. Pimps and jailhouse poets did “toasts”, hilarious obscene spoken word bits, either made up on the spot or well known poems like “Signifying Monkey” or “Shine and the Titanic”. Proto rappers like Blowfly and Dolomite brought these to a larger audience.
Then there were gospel groups like the Golden Gate Quartet where the group laid down a vocal beat while the lead guy did spoken word, a long way from raunchy secular music but a clear influence.

BIG TERRITORY, AND ETHNICALLY SEGREGATED POPULATIONS, THEREFORE, ARTISTIC EXPRESSIONS WERE SUPERMULTIPLE AND DIVERSE, BUT NOT NECESSARILY RICHER, NOR COHESIVE, NOR VERSATILE.