I like American music best

Josh Marshall over at TPM writes of American music.

On July 4th we celebrate America. The most obvious thing is our civic tradition, our history of democratic government. But since it's so rightly and well celebrated, I thought I'd focus on something else for today: American music, or more specifically America's distinct and world-transforming musical idioms. Most of them originating or coming into view of recorded sound between about 1910 and 1930 from an interplay of upcountry white and low country black sounds. If you listen to the amazing British single Adele today she's still working through basic Blues and Jazz musical idioms from going on a century ago.