>>17791626>bluegrass came around after the blues thoAs a popularized genre in the public consciousness, it emerged in the 1940's. The actual scales, performance style and instruments (banjo, fiddle, etc.) emerged much earlier. The actual scales (in this instance Celtic modes) existed for millenia in Ireland and the traveling performance often attributed to black Americans (similar to Vaudeville) existed in Europe since at 1300 AD among the Troubadour poets (likely much earlier). Places like West Virginia and Tennessee were a refuge for escaped Scots Irish Indentured servants long before they were a refuge for escaped African slaves. This is where black people learned a fundamentally European art. Saying black people invented instruments like the guitar, banjo, fiddle, and upright base is fundamentally insane. The predecessors of these instruments clearly existed in Europe and nothing similar to them can be seen on the African continent. Even the basic technology (strings, 12-tones) is based on Bach's functional harmony used on pianos (prior to that harpischords).
