When in the 1890s Dvorak was invited to the US to help found an 'American' school of composition he famously recommended that the most promising source for this was to be found in black American music. The dominant racists of the US music establishment of course immediately buried this proposal.
First in jazz, and later even more spectacularly in the creation of rock and roll from blues, black US music of course became, without comparison, the most influential music genre in the entire world. Justified humiliation of the US racists and a typical illustration of racist stupidity.
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