Considering their tiny population are Jamaicans the most influential people ever?

[HopeKillCure]

The African-ness or European-ness of AA music
Came via ...............AA's

The African Origins of Jazz

Schuller writes: “The African slave’s adjustment to the white man’s music consisted precisely of translating these polymetric and polyrhythmic points of emphasis into the monometric and monorhythmic structures of European music. Syncopation, preceding or following the main beats, was the American Negro’s only workable compromise. It left the Negro with a vestige of his love for cross-rhythms and cross-accentuation; at the same time it enabled him to carry on the tradition within the white man’s musical structures.”

 

[K.O.N.Y]

ThereThere was a thread where you blew everyone's mind BC you were shytting on NYC with the screen name KONY...

It was just confusing to say the least

when was this

 

[K.O.N.Y]

The African Origins of Jazz

this negates nothing i've said

 

[BodeineBrazy]

@Vauxhall Bridge
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@Jahmal
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yo im not jamaican. what the fukk

 

[HopeKillCure]

this negates nothing i've said

You can't have something (africa) be the catalyst of your music and claim it's a independent creation. It's like hispanics claiming reggaetone as original when it's just spanish reggae or UK people claming Grime as original when it's just UK rap.

Your music is just African.

 

[Made Myself A Boss]

when was this

My bad breh.. This was the poster and post I was thinking about...

USA and their politicians are a fukkin joke

What a garbage country

Would never move there even if someone held a gun to my head

So many K.O.N.Y running around here ... its hard to keep up

 

[badtguy]

Jamaicans had a presence since the 1800's all over the carribean, central america, uk and west africa. Facts

 

[K.O.N.Y]

You can't have something (africa) be the catalyst of your music and claim it's a independent creation. It's like hispanics claiming reggaetone as original when it's just spanish reggae or UK people claming Grime as original when it's just UK rap.

Your music is just African.

cats like @IllmaticDelta and @KidStranglehold have been coming in here with to much heat for weak rebuttals like this

Your argument only works if you look at AA's as being non african. Other than that it doesnt make much sense

If thats the case reggae doesnt belong to jamaicans than

 

[HopeKillCure]

cats like @IllmaticDelta and @KidStranglehold have been coming in here with to much heat for weak rebuttals like this

Your argument only works if you look at AA's as being non african. Other than that it doesnt make much sense

If thats the case reggae doesnt belong to jamaicans than

Reggae belongs to africa, doesn't belong to Jamaica

People recognize Jamaica as the home of reggae though

 

[K.O.N.Y]

Reggae belongs to africa, doesn't belong to Jamaica

People recognize Jamaica as the home of reggae though

you dont really believe that

Theres a whole thread in the root that covers new world african influence on the continent

 

[badtguy]

Jamaicans were literally the pastors, teachers, lawyers, doctors nurses, in a good amount of British territories.

If we keep it a buck- the reasons Ghanaians Nigerians Sierraleonean speak with similar accents and broken English is because of the indentured workers, ex slaves who moved to west africa from the carribean Jamaica being the most influential.

If AA were more influential in that aspect back then those countries would sound like Liberians

 

[HopeKillCure]

you dont really believe that

Theres a whole thread in the root that covers new world african influence on the continent

I do believe that.

I'll go read the thread too

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Whats this supposed to prove? American BBQ competitions are popular in America? Why are you showing me this Wikipedia article?

you said it wasn't big and I proved otherwise

You're showing me Carribean BBQ. Whats that got to do with America? You do realize BBQ wasn't invented in America?

if you clicked on the lick and saw the video, you clearly saw they were doing american bbq which was invented in america

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Jamaicans were literally the pastors, teachers, lawyers, doctors nurses, in a good amount of British territories.

If we keep it a buck- the reasons Ghanaians Nigerians Sierraleonean speak with similar accents and broken English is because of the indentured workers, ex slaves who moved to west africa from the carribean Jamaica being the most influential.

no, its the other way around from slave influence->pidgins/creoles

If AA were more influential in that aspect back then those countries would sound like Liberians

aframs were in liberia and sierre leone

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Reggae belongs to africa, doesn't belong to Jamaica

People recognize Jamaica as the home of reggae though