(March 26, 2016 at 3:22 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Country music is like a strip joint containing only octogenarian strippers. I just don't want to go there.
To be fair, much of today's music would not exist if it were not for instruments like the banjo which has it's roots in Africa and folk music from European immigrants.
New types of music never pop out if thin air and always arise from a mix of prior styles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjo which influenced jazz
Which influenced
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluegrass_music
And with out this, no classic rock or modern rock would exist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockabilly Which lead to Elvis, not that I liked him much, but that did lead to heavier and harder music.
It is interconnected so I think much of the distaste comes from media competition and social constructs between fans of camps, but not as much between hard core artists and historians.
