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The "African American" music appreciation thread... ' "The Originators"

African-American music is an umbrella term covering a diverse range of musics and musical genres largely developed by African Americans. Negro spirituals, blues, ragtime, jazz, boogie woogie, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, rock & roll, soul, funk, disco, hip hop, house, and techno constitute the principal modern genres of African-American music. Their origins are in musical forms that arose out of the historical condition of slavery that characterized the lives of black Americans prior to the American Civil War.

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Reply 1

william walker

White European Music is better.

Reply 2

Rex Kwon Do

How come they all come from America and not Africa then?

They say they're Black but I disagree too many must have European roots and influence.

Reply 3

Momoney

ummm unless you listen to country, rock and roll and pop (two very popualar genres) are all born from blues and soull

Reply 4

Beyoncstan

Original post by Rex Kwon Do

How come they all come from America and not Africa then?

They say they're Black but I disagree too many must have European roots and influence.

Ugh what? They are African American or Blacks born in America. African Americans have other ancestry it's just the nature of the country. How does African American music have European influence when we actually INVENTED the genre???? With the exception of country, every other major genre of America music was invented by black people including Rock-n-Roll, Pop and Disco 3 very famous genres which were stolen by white Americans and marketed as such.

African Americans are credited with inventing the following genres...

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Gospel

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House

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Rap

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Neo Soul

Reply 5

Beyoncstan

Original post by Momoney

ummm unless you listen to country, rock and roll and pop (two very popualar genres) are all born from blues and soull

What are you saying? Blues & Soul are both African American just as Rock n Roll and Pop are.

Reply 6

0723206004

"White Europeans" always listen to american songs,they watching american movies,and when they were children they watched american cartoons in nickelodeon, and they eat from McDonald's and they use Apple iphones., and teens are wearing baseball caps...what else