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[-] axont@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah you got it. American white bourgeois society is a virus. And you're right, all the unique music that came out of the USA is a product of oppressed minorities. Even pasty white conservative country music is a perverse mockery of southern/appalachian folk music that has roots in African and Celtic traditions. The banjo is an African instrument for instance.

White suburbs are a genuine blight and their expansion is cooking the planet.

[-] StalinForTime@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah I mean if we were being more fair we would not only have to trace these genres genealogically through Jazz to blues and gospel, ragtime, and also to Caribbean and Spanish music (especially for alot of rhythmic ideas) and also West African music (blues, pentatonic scales), but also recognize that European classical music also had deep influence on early black american music.

The only country music I've ever unironically enjoyed was bluegrass, and that confirms our point. That being said I'm nothing of an aficionado of this stuff so I dont doubt there's decent stuff I dont know.

But yh white suburbs are really where culture goes to die. It reminds of a comment Pasolini once made, that only the lower classes and the upper classes in history have produced real culture. The middle classes have been cultureless on average.

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