About American Music: Born in the USA
When early settlers came to America they often brought few material items, but they brought many customs, traditions, and music of their homeland here. These things, mainly the music took root in America’s soil and grew.
These emigrants came for many different reasons. Some came to escape poverty and find a better life. Many were forced out of their homeland by war. There were many who had no choice but were torn from their families and homes and brought here.
Unlike some versions of history state, this was not a land someone had “discovered.” There were indigenous groups with established cultures who had lived here for thousands of years. In spite of the misconception that all Indians wore feathers, lived in teepees, and had the same culture, Native American music and culture differed regionally and from tribe to tribe. They each had their own music as well.
America really was a melting pot then. The music of Native Americans, white settlers, and the Black enslaved people mingled to create new forms and songs from Delta blues and “hillbilly” music, to rock. My biggest question is does the music reflect the culture, or does the culture reflect the music?
This is the history of American music. It’s the music of the people. .
From its birth in the 1700s through the 1970s. As you look at the history of music, you look at American history. It’s not always a pretty story. Sometimes labor pains are hard, but in the end, it shouts loud and clear, “I was Born in the USA!”
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Kathleen Walls is the author of Georgia’s Ghostly Getaways, Finding Florida’s Phantoms, Last Step, Man Hunt- The Eric Rudolph Story, Kudzu, Tax Sale Tactics Hosts With Ghosts: Haunted Historic Hotels in the Southeast , Wild About Florida series, the War in the West Series: Under a Bloody Flag, Under a Black Flag, For Want of a Ship, Missing—Gone but not Forgotten, a fictionalized version of a true abduction that occurred near her home in Florida in 2009 and has never been solved, and her most recent non-fiction book American Music: Born in the USA. The Tenant from Hell, Double Duplicity, and Ranch House Heist are part of the Casey Clark Realtor Mystery series. All are published by Global Authors Publications (GAP). Kathleen is the publisher/co-owner of GAP. Several of her books are now audio books and most are also ebooks.