>>716848I mean if we're being technical a lot of American music is a mixture of Celtic and African music. It's obviously going to depend on the genre but whole bunch of the music of the United States can either be traced back to Scots-Irish settlers in Appalachia who took their techniques for playing the fiddle or African slaves who despite being kidnapped and forced into this country managed to keep a lot of their traditions alive.
I'm not a big fan of the United States but I do think it's interesting to see these things kind of mix together and it's unfortunate that due to how Anglo-American colonization has a binary mode of thinking that it's not acknowledged a lot outside of musicology. Hell, I guarantee there's probably a lot of people on this board who don't even know the banjo originated from stringed instruments in West Africa such as the akonting.
Also, as a sidenote that's part of the reason why Irish and Scottish music was used in the movie Sinners because not only is it important in the plot (Remmick being a metaphor for the Irish assimilating into whiteness by throwing black people under the bus) but also it's a nod to both the African and Celtic influences on blues music even if the former is more dominant in the case of the blues. It also makes his first kill being the Klu Klux Klan more interesting because technically the Klu Klux Klan was partially influenced by Scottish clans which means that the historical fighting between the Irish and KKK was in a way an extension of the Protestant and Catholic conflict of Northern Ireland.
Anyways, there's some food for thought for those on thread.