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To: brucedickinson

I like that era Cuban music, but it isn’t classical.

But that’s the other part of the fallacy, in the modern forms of music, non-whites are as important as whites and you can argue that blacks were the MVPs in 20th century music for inventing most of the popular genres. Think of Blues, Jazz, Soul, Spiritual, even can be argued they invented Rock, The best Rock acts were totally inspired by black Blues music.


26 posted on 03/08/2017 8:13:38 PM PST by Perchant
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To: Perchant

That’s all true, but Blacks couldn’t have invented the blues, gospel, jazz, soul, or rock, without the influence of Anglo folk songs, Anglo church music, and Anglo instrumental folk music.....and the English language in general.

There were Black slaves in Cuba and Brazil, and they invented their own styles of music, combining Afro influences with Spanish and Portuguese influences. But it didn’t sound like the blues or rock.

And the American pop song is heavily influenced by Anglo music hall songs, and Jewish songwriters transformed it into something uniquely American.

But every form of American music has strong Anglo influences.


50 posted on 03/08/2017 9:30:30 PM PST by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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