No, don't forget the European influence on this stuff. I don't know how to quantify this stuff, but the influence of European folk music is not negligeable.
I mean, Black people did not invent the fiddle. :)
--- ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
>
>
> Couldn't you replace "Southern" with "Black",
> without losing accuracy
> while gaining insight? i.e., black music can be seen
> not as part of
> Southern culture but as a response to it? (I do
> agree that some white
> people -- to wit, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Mark Knopfler
> and Bono(*), but
> more so the white jazz writers -- could do something
> with it).
>
> --ravi
>
>
> (*) just kidding ;-)
>
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