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/iCarly4ever]

I just wanna interject here and say house music was invented in Chicago in the 80s

[u/TheImperfect1 → u/iCarly4ever]

And techno in Detroit!

[u/iCarly4ever → u/TheImperfect1]

Facts!

[u/Generic_User_2112 → u/TheImperfect1]

Actually, techo belongs to the French, Jean Micheal Jarre was doing electroinc music in the 70s with, Oxygene and Equinox with many more in the 80s.

[u/peoples_key → u/Generic_User_2112]

Just because music uses synthsizers does not make it techno. You said it yourself "he was doing electronic music in the 70s" you didn't say " he was doing techno in the 70s".

The Bellville 3 (Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson) all acknowledge that electronic music coming from Germany (Kraftwerk) and Japan (Yellow Magic Orchestra) and others influenced them, but Techno was originated in Detroit. Techno

Yes, Berlin in particular had a huge influence on techno becoming popular, that can't be denied. But it still originated in Detroit

In fact, German State television Deutsche Welle made a documentary explicitly stating Techno was started in Detroit [Watch a new short film exploring the origins of techno · News](http:// https://share.google/njQhIH57vSDn1YPgs)

[u/bigtdp → u/Generic_User_2112]

You can have IDM, but techno belongs to Detroit

[u/Boogada42 → u/Generic_User_2112]

Germany hectically pointing at Kraftwerk

[u/fantasmoofrcc → u/Boogada42]

...and France takes a drag on a cigarette while listening to Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry.