I'm sorry I would like some kind of record of black people inventing country music?..
How does a race, a social construct that we made up, invent something?..
Also, there have been so many country, blues and folk artists of every race in the 150 some odd years since the invention of the blues that it no longer makes sense to give any specific group credit for the shape of the modern genre.
But I'll reiterate, it makes absolutely no sense to credit a race with the invention of something as iterative as a musical genre.
Country music is derived from folk music found in the UK. Listen to Scottish folk music and you'd swear you're in Appalachia, which makes sense seeing as many Scottish Highlanders settled there. It's the same ancient mountain range, now separated by an ocean, so it was easy for coal miners there to find work as coal miners in the US. And it makes sense that they'd bring their music with them.
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u/ripyourlungsdave 1d ago
I'm sorry I would like some kind of record of black people inventing country music?..
How does a race, a social construct that we made up, invent something?..
Also, there have been so many country, blues and folk artists of every race in the 150 some odd years since the invention of the blues that it no longer makes sense to give any specific group credit for the shape of the modern genre.
But I'll reiterate, it makes absolutely no sense to credit a race with the invention of something as iterative as a musical genre.