>"...just good music and bad music..."
>"...only American music..."
>"...cuz *fill in the blank* people were there, too..."
>"...cuz music doesn't have a race or color..."
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>Agree or disagree?

I don't *really* understand fierce musical territoriality. The only real solution is to know your history, and history indicates that music in this country has been miscegenating since its inception. There are few racial universals in musical history.

But the fact that it's been mixing and matching here for 400 years does not mean that music is beyond race or color, and refusing to acknowledge that certain sonic and structural qualities either originated or are primarily associated with certain groups is, to me, just silly.