Politics_Observer wrote:@Rancid Actually hit the nail on the head
The last couple of months I've been 100% focusing my guitar playing on blues music. I never played blues in my life until now, but decided to do it because blues is, as I said, the mother of all modern music (Jazz, Rock, Swing, Country, Bossa Nova, punk, metal, grunge, you name it... mother of them all). The only type of rock music that does not use blues scales/patterns/etc. is Nu Metal.
call-response, is one of the things I learned about while practicing blues music. Also, the British Invasion happened because the English were HUGE fans of Black American blues artists. These artists were more accepted and popular in the UK than in the US. Because in the US they were much more racist towards black artists (no way to sugar coat that). The UK artists on the other hand, were inspired, and would invite these Black Americans to tour in the UK. Eventually, UK folks created their version of rock, then they started imported that into the US. They had an easier time popularizing it in the US because the Brits were white.
So basically Black Americans influenced American music by first exporting their art form to the UK, then those UK artists imported back into the US. Had those Brits been black, the British invasion wouldn't have happened.
When you study and learn all of this, you realize how black history is really American history, and we should really teach black history as part of the regular curriculum rather than segregate it to just February.
I can think of 11780 reasons Trump shouldn't be president ever again.