Music, artists or songs which encapsulate America?

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Re:Music, artists or songs which encapsulate America? 2010/01/21 00:28:55 (permalink)
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Re:Music, artists or songs which encapsulate America? 2010/01/21 00:32:22 (permalink)
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...not to exclude my fellow Northern North Americans, I'm adding Neil Young.  Yeah, I always feel a certain sense of American-ness when I'm listening to him.

Neil Young is from Mexico?

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Re:Music, artists or songs which encapsulate America? 2010/01/21 01:00:16 (permalink)
Hee Hee!  And here I was thinking of listing some of my favorite Tejano and Norteno groupos...

Seriously, though.  As James noted in his OP, North America is SO ridiculously huge and diverse, you have to ask which "America" are you looking for???  The America of Muddy Waters?  Stephen Foster?  Woody Guthrie?  Joni Mitchell?  Aretha Franklin?  Hank Williams?  Patti Smith?  Glen Miller?  Louie Armstrong?  Buddy Guy?  SUBLIME?

Where you at????  Where you been???  Where you going???  It's all gonna change from there....  Strictly looking at the US, the difference between LA and New York (not to mention all the millions of points between) are HUGE.

Not being confrontational here... just that this compounded itself into a conversation with my husband this evening, and, man... we just couldn't decide which way to go with it.... These were just some thoughts we threw around.  I apologize if it's not the thoughts you were looking for....
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Re:Music, artists or songs which encapsulate America? 2010/01/21 01:28:58 (permalink)
Too true.  The differences from one part of TEXAS to another is huge.  No similarities.

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Re:Music, artists or songs which encapsulate America? 2010/01/21 15:03:45 (permalink)
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Johnny Cash.

Marcos ... check out LIVE's version of "Walk the Line" ... superb!
 
And yes ... I would say that Johnny Cash is very American ... but Neil Innes might not think so.

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Re:Music, artists or songs which encapsulate America? 2010/01/21 15:16:23 (permalink)
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Too true.  The differences from one part of TEXAS to another is huge.  No similarities.

And that was the point on my original post on this thread.
 
I remember folks in Madison, Wisconsin (neighbors on both Broom and Rawley St's) that thought demonstrators were not American ... in a town with 50k students in the University! ....
 
The intelectual segregation in America is too tough ... and sometimes so hard is the separation that something that is "American" in New York will never sell 10 cents in Montana! ... it doesn't have boots and a cowboy hat! ... and in NY that's a joke about an old movie! The really good example of this is the likes of Laurie Anderson and many of the musicians around The Velvet Underground ... other than Lou Reed, no one can get a gig in LA! And a lot of that NY scene was way more literary, instead of anything else ... not to mention that some of the Beat Generation writers are nearby ... and Burroughs is major in this scene ... while Kerouac was bigger in the West Coast ... and Ginsburg ... was never really appreciated in SF or LA ... but he made his name in NY and London ... and Ginsburg is very american ...
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Re:Music, artists or songs which encapsulate America? 2010/01/21 15:36:39 (permalink)
Would it not be safe to say that basically all country and western, blues, rock & roll (traditional), jazz, hip hop, r&b, funk, soul and so on are "American"? Would not anything else be "influence".... IE British Influence, or European Influence (continental), Asian Influence...

To me, virtually everything in those genres is 'foundationally' American. The baseline if you will.

Pop and other genres are of course a tad more "international", but when I think about the genres above, it is "American music". Some artists like Springsteen might be a bit more flag waving or sing about Americana (IE nationalistic) but overall... it all is.

That being said, there are bands that make me think of the UK (Like Tull) because they have a more traditional influence to their music than American, and others that do not (like Yes) which are neutral (IE I could not guess where they were from).

I guess what I am saying is, for me "Amercian" is the automatic attribution for most of the genres of modern music I listen to, unless there is something distinctly non-American about it.


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