List the five most influential or important people to the history of (American) music.
think composers
inb4 john cage, mozart, stockhausen, zappa
Various (the American Songbook)
Gershwin
Ives
Coltrane
Cage
>>60723393
>Mozart
>Stockhausen
>American
>Zappa
>an artist
gershwin
sousa
scott joplin
ellington
copland or ives idk
>>60723423
they still influenced american music
>>60723461
wait no the fifth one is definitely cage
>>60723370
Copland
Cage
Mississipi John Hurt
Louis Armstrong
DJ Kool Herc
>7 replies
>no Beefheart
this board is so fucking pleb
>>60723533
Beefheart is really great, but to call him influential is really incorrect. His genius is in his singularity, not in his impact on later performers. His legacy is limited to a handful of "art" rockers who copy his schtick and don't do it as well.
>>60723410
why Coltrane?
>Aaron Copland
>Duke Ellington
>Grandmaster Flash
>George Gershwin
>Chuck Berry (maybe)
if we're limiting ourselves to Americans
1. dj khaled
