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[–] [S] 80 points 1 year ago (41 children)

Jazz, Rock, Disco, and Rap, at minimum.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    Dubstep has strong roots to Jamacian Dub. https://youtu.be/NUOeHoLCisw. Except for the dub guys, are actual wizards making all of their effects with analog technology.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Also reggea and dancehall come from Jamaica as well, incredible such a small country having so much influence.

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    Ska punk is my absolute favourite genre of music. Streetlight Manifesto, Less Than Jake, Faintest Idea, Mad Caddies, and the Suicide Machines are all bands I love, to name a few.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    what's your most recent favorite album?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Right now, it's Ska Dream by Jeff Rosenstock, and by extension its sister album No Dream. I'm also really looking forward to Streetlight's next album The Place Behind The Stars, as the few songs they've let us hear from it are already incredible despite not being entirely finished.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    It's assumed here that rock is derived from blues

    EDIT : Blues is blues, which is obviously black.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Blues is the plural of blue which is a different color from black according to modern color theory

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Rock had a whooole lot of influences including white ones.

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    How much time do you have, ha?

    This is one of the most well researched pieces of work I've ever come across. Like somebody's PhD dissertation. A ten year project for the author. I can't recommend it enough.

    So just to throw some names out there of white people who significantly influenced rock music: Johnny Otis, Bob Wills, Cosimo Matassa.

    Seriously, check out this podcast you're interested in this stuff. I think it's on other platforms if you don't have Spotify.

    https://open.spotify.com/show/7KGhTDsEpOgBAT24WfpTkk

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  • [+] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)
  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

    eeeeeeeh.

    I think death/tech death is where the blues influence starts being more vestigial, and it starts borrowing more from classical. Even Polka (what is a blastbeat but a fast polka beat?) Are the diminished scales really from blues? Do the blues musicians play straight 32nd notes the way classical musicians do?

    From an evolutionary standpoint, it definately does, since blues to rock to sabbath to metal, but death metal onwards really feels distinct. Especially symphonic.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    IDK, Deathspell are more famous for being prog or avant garde or something. I'm pretty sure (but not 100% certain) that Luc is not a nazi, he does a lot of stuff about middle eastern and asian history

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    I'm not really a metal head and I'd never heard of Possessed / Seven Churches so I found it and gave it a listen.

    My honest opinion is...meh. Musically it's an interesting track, arguably better than some Iron Maiden songs, but the vocals are the same muddy mess that ruins so many other metal bands.

    If you listen to Seven Churches and then immediately play "Aces High" or "Run to the Hills" you will hear exactly what I'm talking about. It boils down to this; Jeff Becerra seems to love being buried in the music so he can growl out undecipherable lyrics while Bruce Dickinson is conveying at least as much vocal power while standing out from the music and being clear enough that you can hear the message.

    It's just my opinion of course and honestly this is the same problem I've had with nearly every American Death Metal band. I don't know why most of them even bother having a vocalist as they are functionally useless.

    Rock out to whatever moves ya' but I definitely wouldn't rank Possessed ahead of Iron Maiden.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Click the link first.

    spoilerI haven't actually listened to possessed, so I can't comment. I just liked that guy's statement of "I like stuff heavier than maiden" and it made me think of the Luc Lemay interview.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Ahh folk metal, that can be a fun genre of music! The one you linked isn't too bad but if you like it a bit...eastern...you may want to check out "The HU".

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Techno came from black kids on Detroit listening to Kraftwerk and then exporting that sound back to Germany

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  • Most of Elvis early hits were ripoffs of black music

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    I feel like the roots of basically all western mudic today are African American, if you consider techno to have come from hiphop/r&b and punk rock.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Except for traditional Folk from various European locations. I think this still counts as "Western Music", even if it isn't that popular.

    If you consider the Western World to be purely Northern America, then I think you're right, since Native American tribes are normally not considered Western.

    Imo, the best music comes from a mix of various cultures, I'm a huge fan of Folk Rock/Metal. (Rock and thus Metal obviously coming from Blues).

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Definitly true and fair point, yes i meant pop music in western countries. Also still a lot of new classical music being released. I would be more right if i had said 'almost all genres of western pop music have Afro-American roots'.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    In Germany, we differentiate E- and U-Musik. E (Ernst) means "serious" and is classical music and stuff. U (Unterhaltung) = entertainment and is everything African American inspired (Jazz, Rock, Pop, hip hop, ...). This difference basically exists to devalue everything that isn't central European in origin

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    y'all should stop differentiating them

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    True and it's far less common nowadays I think. I haven't heart it for a while. I remember in school our teacher discussed it critically but not from a CRT perspective but more like "some classical music is quite danceable and some blues can get quite serious", not "this is a eurocentric concept and we should stop it"

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    [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

    This scenario has happened so many zillion times it's not the least bit astounding - something becomes popular with a group of people, then another group and another, in spite of some people hating it or sometimes because of that, and the business world figures out how to make money off it.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Take country music, for example, and all the black parents who were afraid of it, but the black kids who loved it. /s

    The trend is fetishizing black culture; music is just a part of that.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    or, you know, black culture has been very prolific and makes good art so it appeals to a lot of people. I think calling it fetishizing is a bit insulting to the counter itself; as if it doesn't have its own merit.

    dominating the art scene had been historically true of a lot of minorities in various countries. I guess art is one thing you can't take away from people easily.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I think it is fetishizing when you systemically oppress black people but coopt their art.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    that's appropriation, and black people themselves are fetishized, but I don't know if that's appropriate to say about the culture.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    The black people are being farmed for cash by the executives and stockholders.

    "The Black Youth" were motivated to buy a whole new identity to relate to country. They are taking back something from white people. Buy buying the things to make them look country.

    Things that were lacking buyers from traditional demographics because they had always been country. Now those companies have more people to sell to. Same owners tho.

    That's the key fetish. Money.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yeah my point is that thinking of it as fetishizing black culture is a very narrow view of a much more universal human behavior, where people like whatever they like without bothering to filter it by who found out about it first, and business people maks a buck out of any and every trend no matter where it came from.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    What you're saying just isn't true, though, or at least doesn't explain the sheer fascination of contemporary white americans with mimicking every aspect of black culture

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    "The only art form that Americans have invented, that will commend us down through the years to posterity, is a music born primarily in a community that has the historical memory of being unfree is a supposedly free land" - Ken Burns

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