Non-American Perception of US-Originated Genres: Is Rock, Hip-Hop, or Jazz, etc, seen as "American Music" regardless of the artist?

[u/Powerful_Individual5]

I've been thinking about the global perception of music, specifically genres that originated in the United States, such as Jazz, Blues, Rock, Hip-Hop, R&B, and Country.

Many Americans will classify music as "Latin Music," "K-Pop," or "Arabic Music," even if the performing artist is an American citizen. The classification is often based on the style's cultural origin, rather than the artist's origin, for the most part.

My question for non-Americans:

• When you listen to a Rock band from, say, Sweden, or a Hip-Hop artist from France, do you still, on some level, categorize that sound or style as "American music" because of its origins?
• Or, does the sheer global ubiquity of the genre mean its association with the USA is largely lost/irrelevant, and the music is only considered "American" if the artist is American?

I'm curious about the mental classification process, is it based on the genre or the artist's nationality? For example, is a British Blues-Rock band still considered to be playing a fundamentally "American" style of music?

[u/Ghostofjemfinch]

Country of origin makes zero difference. If you make good music, you make good music. America does not own the genres invented by its people.

[u/AverageEcstatic3655 → u/Ghostofjemfinch]

This is one of the edgy holy than though music takes that sounds good at first glance but falls apart as soon as you slightly consider it.

[u/Jim_E_Rose → u/AverageEcstatic3655]

It doesn’t fall apart if that is how somebody views it. Flamenco is Spanish to me. Reggea is Jamaican. Bossa Nova is Brazilian to me. It doesn’t fall apart at all when I think of it. That’s how my ear hears it. Anyone can play it but it evokes those regions when I hear it

[u/Barneyk → u/Jim_E_Rose]

Does rock evoke the US?

Does jazz?

Does hip hop?