Posted on 09/28/2017 2:44:31 PM PDT by EveningStar
People have joked that the United States of America has no culture of its own. They’ve suggested that American culture is the collection of other cultures. That’s partly true. America is an amazing tapestry of subcultures mixed together to give the country a unique, distinct, and very evident culture. America’s culture is, in fact, the result of the great experiment that is our existence. We come from all over the world, and together we form what was once called a “melting pot.” We’re not required to lose the identity of our country of origin, but instead, we’re celebrated for what we bring, adding to the culture at large...
[Black culture] is American culture. In fact, it is a culture that is the result of America. In that way, black culture may be different from Italian, Japanese, French, or Hispanic cultures, which all brought their individual cultures and practices with them to the United States. These and various other cultures were then shaped by their new homeland. Black culture, on the other hand, is different. Black culture is uniquely American. It is birthed right here, proudly made in the USA...
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Surely, some of rock’s evolution is from country music as well, even if only a tiny bit, Gene Vincent, rockabilly, blue grass... it’s not a one way street and there is a book on this, I believe called “Dixie Lullaby”, they make the point that the music has fed off each other.
American black culture has become a horrible cesspool, it’s disgusting.
I completely reject black ghetto culture and values, they are very anti-American.
>>I met a guy from Liberia and he thought American blacks were...........................LAZY!.................
Every true African I know says that.
What is American Culture? Time for a patriotic moment!
Posted on Wednesday, May 03, 2006 10:31:56 AM by fishtank
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1626034/posts
Here was my list 11 years ago:
The Declaration of Independence
The U.S. Constitution
Baseball
Football
Basketball
The Boy Scouts of America
Country Music
Blues
“No King But Jesus”
The Young Men’s Christian Association
Route 66
BBQ
Philly Cheese Steaks
Hollywood (yes, at it’s best and worst)
Broadcast TV (we invented it)
NASCAR
USMC
Detroit steel
Chicago Deep Dish
There are many hard-working legal first and second generation Jamaican immigrants in this area.
They are disgusted by American ghetto blacks—and they talk much more openly about it then any white people I know.
I would disagree. Here is a record of music from Mali recorded in the 1950s (I have the vinyl in my old-fashioned ethnomusicology collection), and if you go to about 6:05, there is a recording of a woman singing the praises of various Muslims. I have played it in music classes, and asked students who she sounded like; the usual opinion is Aretha Franklin, but there are blues and gospel singers from the early 20th century who would also fit.
Also, the "blues third" is a note that isn't part of the European 12-note chromatic scale; it's a frequency ratio of 11/9, halfway between the 5/4 (diatonic) major and 6/5 minor thirds. The earliest singers brought from Africa probably tried to emulate it on instruments they co-opted, such as the banjo and guitar, and later the clarinet--and of course their voice. The result is music that is European in form, but African in tone.
Reminds me of "Hey Mon!" in "In Living Color"......."What you mean you only have one job, you lazy lima bean!"
He is talking about the blues, but not the music genre.
Watched an amazing show about James Brown the other night.
Dude was a badass....
There is no Black American culture without our tax money to pay for it.
Or chicken and waffles
I used to play around with Bobby Lockwood. Not in his band, because my music was to deep Delta. He heard me one day in a music store, but couldn’t see me. When he poked his head around the corner, he exclaimed, “Why! You’re White.” Made my money playing pedal steel, but my soul is deep Delta!
And if you go back far enough, there are hints of "blues" in English and Scottish folk music.
Have you ever heard "IN THE PINES" or "THE HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN", in the original versions? Heck, even more modern versions, from the 1950s will do. :-)
Of course he did, because here Blacks are Entitled, they have Black Privilege, their Black Lives Matter. He knows that over there, they’d just be another n——r in Africa.
Dude was a badass....
"I don't want nobody
To give me nothing
Open up the door
I'll get it myself"
Even the blues is NOT unencumbered by influences from other "cultures". It is a true American form of music; as is jazz, ragtime, and yes, Rock & Roll.
Broadway musical theatre was heavily influenced by Gilbert & Sullivan ( Brits ), Offenbach ( French ), and to a lesser degree, Mozart ( German ); however, it developed into a PURE American form ( in the 1940s ), which others have copied.
or Cornhole!
Isn’t that just a SOUTHERN “thing”; as is a lot of what is now stupidly called “soul food”.
I got the blues from my head to my bare feet
I got the blues from my head to my bare feet
Too busy running from a lion
To get something to eat
Walked out of my hut
Ten past three
Headhunter woman,
She was lookin’ right at me
I got the blues from my head to my bare feet
I got the blues from my head to my bare feet
Too busy running from a headhunter woman
To get something to eat
I got those
Sub-Saharan
Kilimanjaran
Ain’t got no food
And my neighbors ain’t sharin’
I got those lowdown, dirty
Got those sub-Saharan blues!
And vice versa.
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