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Funny how white people are calling it cultural appropriation when country.... is a genre..... made by black people? LOL IM LAUGHING MY ASS OFF

From what I’ve read it uses melodies and singing styles from immigrants from Wales, Irish protestants and lowland Scots, using banjo which is an instrument coming from black people. Rather than inventing or cultural appropriation, this seems like a perfect example of melting pot culture, which is what Americans strive for.
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From what I’ve read it uses melodies and singing styles from immigrants from Wales, Irish protestants and lowland Scots, using banjo which is an instrument coming from black people. Rather than inventing or cultural appropriation, this seems like a perfect example of melting pot culture, which is what Americans strive for.

Not really, do you read anything about music history?

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Idk? Regular degular music history books?

Country Music U.S.A. by Bill Malone is heralded as the music history book for country, and it’s even used as required reading in many universities in music history classes. But that’s where I’ve read that is a melting pot music, where yes, black people did have their impact, especially in the use of banjo, Welsh, Irish, and Scot immigrants’ folk music played a major role too, the melodies are in British Isles folk style. But it’s distinctly American because it could have only be born in the American social context in the Appalaches, which is where these cultures congregated.
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From what I’ve read it uses melodies and singing styles from immigrants from Wales, Irish protestants and lowland Scots, using banjo which is an instrument coming from black people. Rather than inventing or cultural appropriation, this seems like a perfect example of melting pot culture, which is what Americans strive for.

Country stems from blues with influences of Appalachian and Irish folk. Blues came from black people.
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Country stems from blues with influences of Appalachian and Irish folk. Blues came from black people.

So it's melting pot music, like I said. Just like blues too, which is traditional West African music (in particular

) mixed with traditional European styles (especially the chord progression) and even Native American influence (pow wow drumming). Beautiful music from multiple parts of the world mixed together to make even more beautiful music. 
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Not really, do you read anything about music history?

Do you?

 

 

Historians acknowledge that country music is derived from a melting pot of cultures. Mountain or hillbilly music, in particular, combines the ballads and folksongs brought to the South by immigrants from the British Isles in the 18th and 19th Centuries and the rhythmic influences of African immigrants. The banjo, which mimics the banjar played in Africa, was invented by Southern blacks in the late 1690s. Slaves also played the fiddle, which was introduced to them by their white masters.

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-09-16-9809190003-story,amp.html

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Not really, do you read anything about music history?

 

lmao it's funny that you're acting condescending and saying that since anyone with basic music knowledge knows it's not true ajhfsjfabskja

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lmao it's funny that you're acting condescending and saying that since anyone with basic music knowledge knows it's not true ajhfsjfabskja

Read black history books, music history books and it will add up to you.

Hell, people said the original creators of soul music were white back in the day, it’s erasing black history c:

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