Did Black Folks really create Country Music? That’s what shea butter twitter is claiming now.

[HarlemHottie]

Black country musicians have been on a rise in country music lately. Well before Beyonce

It's not a competition, everybody can eat. Maybe Bey can do some collabs with those other black country artists and really get it popping.

 

[pickles]

Whole lot of cacs in this thread.

Texas Hold'em slaps.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

It's not a competition, everybody can eat. Maybe Bey can do some collabs with those other black country artists and really get it popping.

That's what she should've done. Help give some shine to some black artists that are already there

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

Whole lot of cacs in this thread.

Texas Hold'em slaps.

Naw nikka that shyt is cheeks

 

[BaileyPark31]

 

[IllmaticDelta]

became

 

[Illuminatos]

I hate how nikkas act like mindless dikkriders sometimes.

 

[Will Ross]

It's not a competition, everybody can eat. Maybe Bey can do some collabs with those other black country artists and really get it popping.

beyonce is like the wal mart of black music
she not going to benefit someone that is not already a super star.

 

[bnew]

Korean government is funding their arts? Sheeeeit.

No link seen here.

The surprisingly political history of K-pop

The influence of the “wave” of Korean music and film on global culture was no accident.

www.vox.com

The Hallyu Is Real: Why K-Pop Largely Owes Its Success to The South Korean Government

Because this global phenomenon was more than just a coincidence!

www.tripzilla.com

South Korean Government Accused of Blacklisting 9,000 Artists—Here’s What You Need to Know | Artsy

A group of artists is suing the South Korean government for putting them on a blacklist that barred them from receiving state funding or support.

www.artsy.net

 

[HarlemHottie]

beyonce is like the wal mart of black music
she not going to benefit someone that is not already a super star.

Didn't she have a lot of African artists on Black is King? Did their fortunes improve due to the association?

 

[Rollie Forbes]

CTG gives a brief history of the Black origins of country music:

 

[IllmaticDelta]

no country music is cac music.

The purest "cac" element of Country music are the ballads

Ballads[edit]​

Many Appalachian ballads, such as "Pretty Saro", "The Cuckoo", "Pretty Polly", and "Matty Groves", descend from the English ballad tradition and have known antecedents there. Other songs popular in Appalachia, such as "Young Hunting," "Lord Randal," and "Barbara Allen", have lowland Scottish roots.[11] Many of these are versions of the famous Child Ballads, collected by Francis James Child in the nineteenth century. The dance tune "Cumberland Gap" may be derived from the tune that accompanies the Scottish ballad "Bonnie George Campbell".[12] According to the musicologist Cecil Sharp the ballads of Appalachia, including their melodies, were generally most similar to those of "the North of England, or to the Lowlands, rather than the Highlands, of Scotland, as the country from which they [the people] originally migrated. For the Appalachian tunes...have far more affinity with the normal English folk-tune than with that of the Gaelic-speaking Highlander."[13]

The stuff that we call "Old-Time music" (string bands) though is slave based

One of the most iconic symbols of Appalachian culture— the banjo— was brought to the region by African-American slaves in the 18th century. It is likely related to West African instruments such as the akonting.[21] Black banjo players were performing in Appalachia as early as 1798, when their presence was documented in Knoxville, Tennessee.[22] It is also likely that the guitar was introduced to white Appalachians by African Americans.[23]

Cecil Sharp described the practice among white ballad singers of "dwelling arbitrarily upon certain notes of the melody, generally the weakest accents," unaware that this feature was African in origin, being widespread among African Americans and in West Africa.[23] In early Appalachia, black and white fiddlers would exchange tunes, allowing the rhythms of Africa to influence white fiddle music.[23] African slaves brought a distinct tradition of community songs of work and worship, usually involving call and response, and African percussion rhythms affected the rhythms of Appalachian song and dance.[15]

Early African-American vocal music, probably the ancestor of blues music,[24] brought harmonic (third and seventh blue notes, and sliding tones) and verbal dexterity to Appalachian music, and many early Appalachian musicians, such as Dock Boggs and Hobart Smith, recalled being greatly influenced by watching black musicians perform at the beginning of the twentieth century.[25][26] Dock Boggs, Doc Carter and Doc Watson have all been described as "white blues" musicians due to the presence of African American blues features in their styles.[23][27]

this guy explains it with more detail

They don't have "hoedowns", "breakdowns", "stomps" or "rags" in old world European fiddling like they do in USA fiddling because of the lack of African influence

 

[Will Ross]

Didn't she have a lot of African artists on Black is King? Did their fortunes improve due to the association?

it’s not about beyonce personally it’s more about what her fanbase and marketing team brings.
she has to be number one

 

[HarlemHottie]

it’s not about beyonce personally it’s more about what her fanbase and marketing team brings.
she has to be number one

Of course, that's how it work when you put somebody on. They'd benefit from her #1'ness too, that's why its advantageous in the first place.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

It should be noted that the black musicians and producers wouldn’t necessarily benefit from Beyoncé from a country music perspective because a lot of those white artist and producers are already collaborating with them and putting them on their songs as is.

Now if it helps them reach a broader audience and get gigs and producer credits outside of country music then that’s a different discussion.

It would help if she actually stuck to the genre other than it being a one off because the genre will go back to doing the same shyt that happened before she got there and her not her fan base will care to do anything about it.

The only time people fake care about country music and inspiring change is when a song catches wind or their favor artist does a crossover with it.