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Though probably meant as a joke you are actually pretty much on target. Part of the reason the bagpipe was adopted by the Scottish (& later British) militaries was because of their psychological impact. En mass they do indeed sound pretty frightening.
Ken
Thank you.
Coulda gotten a confession out of Noriega with the proper application of bagpipes
If you look at ever musical genre in American music, you will hear influences from black people. All American music including Country have African roots.
If you look at ever musical genre in American music, you will hear influences from black people. All American music including Country have African roots.
Contributing to and creating are 2 different things. The post should read Did blacks help create the American sound.
Coulda gotten a confession out of Noriega with the proper application of bagpipes
That's about right.
I actually REALLY LIKE bagpipes and have been to see the Black Watch (twice) when they came around on tour - but I will FREELY admit that SOMETIMES a bagpipe can sound like someone is skinning a cat alive (or at least how I would IMAGINE that would sound).
The one genre that has absolutely no African influence (and is probably the most technically proficient genre) is classical music. Most Americans are too uncultured to realize Bach, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky ever existed though.
Yeah if you go back far enough. Even a mathcore band probably finds its roots/influences in some other metal bands, who found their roots in earlier metal bands, who found their roots in hard rock bands, who found their roots in blues, etc etc.
But this doesn't sound particularly "black" (whatever that means)
e: AC/DC's Let There Be Rock comes to mind: "The white man had the schmaltz / the black man had the blues"
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Originally Posted by dorado0359
I doubt if heavy metal, hard rock and goth have any African roots.
Heavy metal and hard rock came out of the blues-based and R'n'b based rock of the late 60s. All it took was a distortion pedal and crapload of drugs to turn Howlin' Wolf and John Lee Hooker into Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. And Jimi Hendrix came out of the r'n'b circuit(he played with the Isley Brothers)but ended up pioneering and providing a lot of the framework for distorted guitar playing that would transform rock. Even Black Sabbath, which created the early template for darker heavy metal, still had bluesy solos and even a harmonica on it's debut record. By the early 80s, much of the blues influences had been stripped out by bands like Judas Priest and Iron Maiden in favor of a heavier dissonance. By the time you get to thrash metal like Metallica and Slayer, it's something else completely different--to speak nothing of the more extreme forms. And there's other musicians in metal more influenced by classical music even in the scales used for solos, than anything in the blues.
Same thing with punk rock though--the Ramones stripped out blues solos in favor of non-stop power chords, but the Sex Pistols and Clash were still aping Chuck Berry style riffs and solos in the late 70s. But by the time you get to early hardcore punk, it mutated into a more straight ahead heavy rock sound. Since the 70s though rock music has had different degrees of flirtation with the black styles of the times.
Well, Non Africans are part Neanderthal, that has been proven with DNA testing...So if modern humans were able to breed with Neanderthals then that leads to other questions as to where "humans" originated.
I think that is another viable theory. Non-African's possess between 1-4% Neanderthal DNA. These are just theories though. Nobody can say with 100% certainty that homo sapiens came from Africa or not.
Hip hop, soul (gospel), blues, rock, tribal, dance, funk, disco, etc are all fine.
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Originally Posted by knowledgeiskey
If you look at ever musical genre in American music, you will hear influences from black people. All American music including Country have African roots.
Well, all of the stuff I like (jazz, blues, rock) is definitely black music.
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So?
Did Blacks Create The American Sound?
