Scots-Irish

[MacLowlife]

Sorry, MacLowlife, not sure what came over me to ask that question.

Blackrose87, you make a good point about the family trees spreading across all sorts of locations. More and more, I am thinking of myself as being of American heritage, an American lump, rather than Irish or German, or English etc.
It worries me, though, that some might use that as a reason to exclude me from parts of my own culture. You don't have the genes* meant ancestors*, you don't belong in this public event…

* I should have said "ancestors" rather than genes.

Somebody asked a question, I didn't know what to say
somebody asked a question, I didn't know just what to say
If you've never had that problem, you musta been born yesterday.

Current academic-political theories choose to discount the contributions of other cultures than enslaved ( and formerly enslaved) Africans to the Blues. However, you may find similar elements in traditional music from other sources, including the Appalachian music that derives from Celtic sources. Call -and-response, laments, and the AAB rhyme form above certainly exist in several apparently unrelated traditions. I will leave it to you, McBug, to support any connections...

[Bugbear]

Somebody asked a question, I didn't know what to say
somebody asked a question, I didn't know just what to say
If you've never had that problem, you musta been born yesterday.

Current academic-political theories choose to discount the contributions of other cultures than enslaved ( and formerly enslaved) Africans to the Blues. However, you may find similar elements in traditional music from other sources, including the Appalachian music that derives from Celtic sources. Call -and-response, laments, and the AAB rhyme form above certainly exist in several apparently unrelated traditions. I will leave it to you, McBug, to support any connections...

I suppose one could point to the role of Spiritual music on the blues, and that would have some connection to the subject of this thread. I only studied Jazz in college, and that is why I was asking you, MacLowlife.
I am a pesky little sugar ant among giants, who are very well learned in history, as far as this forum goes. I know nothing.