bad-dominicana: i just love music history as i...

1st July 2012

Post reblogged from the bad dominicana with 82 notes

i just love music history as i keep saying

coz it denotes our interactions and history as people

(to oversimplify, this is like a tree w hella branches on branches)

the moors music is what we now call traditional spaniard music,

which is what was brought to latin america

which blended w west african shit

and made what we now recognize as mexican guitar too

which also influenced the blues (and there were already malian blues so these are sounds being regurgitated and remixed thru history)

which influenced hawaiian slack key (along w portuguese and mexican styles)

which influenced the blues again

which influenced rock and country and

from the doowop that also came from the blues and retro soul

came ska and reggae, which bred dancehall, reggaetton, among other shit

and cuban big band shit which was of blended mostly west african origin

influenced african american big bands and jazz

which influenced latin jazz and salsa

which influenced funk and soul

which influenced west african artists who remixed the music the rest of the diaspora had cranked out, and created their own new afrorock and other blended genres

and from funk and soul came disco and what we now know as r&b and pop and hip hop

and hip hop has taken elements from any and all the above

and new connections and genres and subgenres have been forming forever, all over the place

its ongoing

wherever we meet together, downtrodden or not

we make music together too

Crooked Purple Rain!