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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
You are dead wrong, Africans had EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THE BLUES! The crazy scales, fingerings, chord changes, and even open tunings came from AFRICA! West Africans in particular, around the late 19th and early 20th century, had access to the caribean via the british, and these brought to the Americas the crazy and uniquely African styles of GUITAR PLAYING which DIRECTLY AND HEAVILY INFLUENCED the blues.
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Either I didn't make myself clear or you've misunderstood me. Africans absolutely had a TON to do with the blues. My first point was that there was also European influence in the blues, and the reason I brought that up was to say that it's ridiculous and pointless to try to link any cultural institution to a single 'race.'
My second point (the one I believe that caused you confusion due to my own wording or you just having misread it) was that even if we ignored the first point and said that the blues were invented by 'black' people alone with no outside influence, even that is a false statement as it was specific to a section of American blacks and black people from Africa (aside from being an influence), the Caribbean, South America, or any other location didn't have a hand in it.
If any of this is unclear, blame it on the fact that I am presently drinking Maker's Mark straight from the bottle.