As a nation, Jamaica is the most influential music nation outside of the USA

[IllmaticDelta]

Show me more. I'm not convinced yet.

There is plenty more but those are the biggest ones off the top of my head right now. Specifically Adele, Winehouse and Mumford.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

So is EDM a genre or collective of genres under one umbrella called EDM?

You know how Americans b*stardised Hip Hop and call allsorts of fukkery Hip Hop? Same thing?

Damn...you started off so strong

You know "hip hop" isn't ONE thing, right?

You can go sit down with this vast generalization and shyt.

You brits are more delusional than we thought.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

And if we really want to talk about origins of black music lets just go to Africa. All stems from there.

USA is very influential when it comes to perfecting the current trend, packaging it and selling it. So if you watch MTV and BET you would be forgiven for thinking that America sets the trend. But i can't really hear any innovators coming from the US in 2014. Europe and UK create the sound, America gentrify the fukk out of it and sell it.

How the hell are you CONSISTENTLY wrong about everything?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Of course people over here jack shyt too, it will happen all over the world but the majority of popular american music is influenced buy outside cultures, IN MY OPINION of course.

Well your opinion is wrong

We got New Zealanders copying our alternative jazz scene and Australians trying to be rappers

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Nah, most music of today was influenced by James brown or disco. James brown changed the syncopation of music with the way he produced records and had the drums being played(funky drumming) and disco did the same thing with the four on the floor drumming technique.

Modern dance/funky music wouldn't exist as we know it today w/o James Brown

 

[BronxFleeZ]

jamaica will always be #1 in music. know why?

Spoiler

 

[Cuban Pete]

They didn't

That shyt was largely guitar and higher frequency sounding stuff.

That HEAVY bass is all Caribbean/black america.

Not sure if serious

Reggaeton came from Reggae... It's just Reggae in spanish

I don't even think they use drums in Salsa today..

Most music you hear today was influenced by Reggae

@Napoleon @TheRealfG

yall gotta be kidding me with this unless u mean spanish music as in the actual iberian peninsula in europe



so they aint using drums in that video right now? and heavy bass been around in the latino world its call bajo - low that higher frequency stuff u speak of is only the mainstream genres everyone knows you got about 100 different musical styles

and yea of course reggaeton came from reggae i think thats obvious enough

 

[NvrCMyNut]

@Napoleon @TheRealfG

yall gotta be kidding me with this unless u mean spanish music as in the actual iberian peninsula in europe



so they aint using drums in that video right now? and heavy bass been around in the latino world its call bajo - low that higher frequency stuff u speak of is only the mainstream genres everyone knows you got about 100 different musical styles

and yea of course reggaeton came from reggae i think thats obvious enough

nikkas don't know Cubans been influencing the rest of Latin America 150 years before anybody heard of Jamaica on the world music scene.

 

[BronxFleeZ]

nikkas don't know Cubans been influencing the rest of Latin America 150 years before anybody heard of Jamaica on the world music scene.

what??????????????????????

 

[Cuban Pete]

what??????????????????????

If we talking actual numbers you know its more people that speak Spanish than English in the world right? :mjsombrero:

matter fact we might both be wrong maybe the chinese got some shyt going on we dont even know about with there lil ping ding dong sounding instruments

have an english-centric point of view brehs

 

[NvrCMyNut]

@Napoleon London comfortably had the best edm scene in the world for a long time, the amount of new genre's & sounds that came out there while the american rave scene was pretty much non existent is worth acknowledging.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

what??????????????????????

He's right though. Jamaica didn't really have any influence on music until almost 1960. Cuba was major player even in the 1800's.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

@Napoleon London comfortably had the best edm scene in the world for a long time, the amount of new genre's & sounds that came out there while the american rave scene was pretty much non existent is worth acknowledging.

Because London was up on American electronic music whereas in America these scenes were kept underground. Most of the innovators in America from the 80's had to got to Europe to make a living because they were treated like gods in those places but ignored in their own country of origin.

First academic conference on techno music and its African American origins (2006 article)

"Maultsby said the conference will re-establish the African American origins of the genre and an understanding of the context from which it came.


"It is interesting how the music migrated from Detroit to Europe, and the music became associated with rave parties, and then migrated back to the U.S., and Americans became involved ... and the African American identity became invisible," Maultsby said. "Music can be appropriated and re-appropriated, and history can be distorted as a result of that ...Very few people associate techno with its African American origins."

http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/4080.html

There was type of resentment against dance music since the Disco era ended but really the modern dance/clubbing scene isn't all that different from the Disco days

 

[scuba]

Jamaica has heavy influence...
but as far as raw numbers go for western music...
Its USA...
then UK...

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

@Napoleon @TheRealfG

yall gotta be kidding me with this unless u mean spanish music as in the actual iberian peninsula in europe



so they aint using drums in that video right now? and heavy bass been around in the latino world its call bajo - low that higher frequency stuff u speak of is only the mainstream genres everyone knows you got about 100 different musical styles

and yea of course reggaeton came from reggae i think thats obvious enough

You're making it seem like I said no other place makes music

I didn't say that.