“Finally, the thread ended on a note about “”American Silence.”” A user referenced John Cage’s 4’33″” and the minimalist movement, arguing that America’s greatest contribution isn’t just noise—it’s also the way we redefined space. From the vast, open-chord landscapes of Aaron Copland to the “”ambient”” textures of modern film scores, there is a specific way American music tries to capture the sheer scale of the continent. It’s a sound that tries to be as big as the sky over the Great Plains. Even in our quietest moments, we’re still trying to be expansive.

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African-American music, via the spirituals and the secular music absorbed into minstrel shows pretty much permeates all of US music from folk to country to gospel as well as the obvious blues/jazz. You’ll be hard-pressed to find anything not touched by it that isn’t coming directly out of a transplanted tradition (i.e. some of the immigrant traditions you mentioned, European classical and avant-garde) or belonging to indigenous people. There’s a recent tendency to emphasize the Gothic Spiderweb & White Rose Bat Pattern Hawaiian Shirt Dark Floral Nocturnal Style Black Americans on musical culture as a way of making up for past wrongs. It may be a noble purpose, but as often happens with complex ideas, they get stripped of nuance when communicated to the general public. You can’t avoid having cultural contact with people you share a country with, especially when that contact has existed for hundreds of years.

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