Who Invented Jazz?
Scholars universally agree that Paul Whiteman invented jazz. The year was 1897, and most American music at that time was played on old discarded plungers, enormous sheets of tin, fog horns and dog whistles. The barn dances were full of happy revelers who didn't even notice the manure on their boots, and the rousing arias from Faust that they sung in microtonal interpretations rang out through the steamy Kansas nights.
Then Whiteman came along one evening (dressed in a lime green zoot suit and carrying a pink sousaphone) and announced "I have invented Jass! Everybody, listen to THIS!" He proceeded to blow 37 bars of what we now recognize as "Kind of Blue", although Whiteman at that time titled it "Kind of Vaguely Chartreuse, But Not Exactly". The barn dance crowd was ecstatic, and Mr. WC Handy, who was in attendance, rushed right home and proceeded to invent the blues, a lesser-known offshoot of "Jass" that would, about a hundred years later, prove popular with skinny English boys who were trying to get laid.
Then Whiteman came along one evening (dressed in a lime green zoot suit and carrying a pink sousaphone) and announced "I have invented Jass! Everybody, listen to THIS!" He proceeded to blow 37 bars of what we now recognize as "Kind of Blue", although Whiteman at that time titled it "Kind of Vaguely Chartreuse, But Not Exactly". The barn dance crowd was ecstatic, and Mr. WC Handy, who was in attendance, rushed right home and proceeded to invent the blues, a lesser-known offshoot of "Jass" that would, about a hundred years later, prove popular with skinny English boys who were trying to get laid.
Who Invented Rock?
Rock was invented by a shadowy consortium of music industry lawyers and guitar string manufacturers whose identities are now lost in the mists of time. At various points throughout rock's history, the identities of some of these individuals has been hinted at, but it is well known that a number of people who were ready to name names have wound up dead under suspicious circumstances.
What is generally agreed upon, of course, is that rock didn't really come into its own until the invention of the Flying Q guitar, which replaced the familiar Flying V, an instrument that had been in constant use since the late 1700s. "Yeah, it was the Q that really kicked everything into high gear" said Peter Tork of the Monkees, who of course were best known as the stars of the popular TV series "The Partridge Family".
What is generally agreed upon, of course, is that rock didn't really come into its own until the invention of the Flying Q guitar, which replaced the familiar Flying V, an instrument that had been in constant use since the late 1700s. "Yeah, it was the Q that really kicked everything into high gear" said Peter Tork of the Monkees, who of course were best known as the stars of the popular TV series "The Partridge Family".
Who invented Arabic music?
Arabic music was invented by Jews.
Who invented Jewish music?
Jewish music was invented by Arabs.
Who Invented Country & Western?
Country and western, surely the most beloved form of American popular music, was invented on a chilly Tuesday morning in 1832, in Saginaw, Michigan, by Mr. Everett T. Schilling. Schilling was the proprietor of a successful chain of stores throughout the tri-county area specializing in lard-based cleaning products, horse syrup (later marketed as “anti-aging creme”) and cocaine-laced licorice candies popular with the German immigrant children who worked in the nearby foundries. On that historic morning, on his way to open one of his shops, Schilling suddenly had a vision, a kind of hallucination: several tall, skinny men with pronounced Adam’s apples and wearing sequin-covered Nudie suits were gyrating wildly and blowing into enormous Swiss alphorns and Tibetan Buddhist monk’s trumpets. He immediately realized that this was the future of American music, and described his vision to a close friend, Bud “Shucks” Shuckleworth, who owned the local radio station. Dropping the alphorns, Buddhist trumpets and wild gyrations, but keeping the skinny guys in Nudie suits, “Shucks” put together an ensemble that very day, which by the end of the week was performing at every barn dance, garage dance, woodshed dance and falling-down-hovel dance in Michigan. And country music was born.