"Started here" doesn't mean it was "invented here".
Almost all modern forms of music were fusion of music from other cultures, imported into the US.
“Started here” doesn’t mean it was “invented here”.
Yes, it does. Steel & the wheel weren’t invented in America but the horseless carriage certainly was.
You’re looking for ways to discredit your own culture in order to make a wrong headed “point”.
Although Jazz and blues have their origins in the south, none of it was really African based. It’s very misleading to claim jazz and blues was a continuation of another musical style.
That’s like saying lasagna isn’t an Italian cultural creation because the Chinese invented noodles.
And who was it that fused them and developed them in to new styles of music?
By your logic, it can be argued that NO culture has any original music forms, because ALL music is derived from Cro-Magnons banging rocks together.