How have the Anglosphere dominated world music over the last century?

Anglo nations are tiny minority of the worlds population, yet the Anglosphere pretty much created much of the modern music that is enjoyed globally today . The Blues, Psychedelic Rock, Jazz, Swing, Progressive Rock, Synth pop, Hip Hop and RNB can all trace their origins to Britain and the USA. And Every country now has its own local iteration of these genres. I wonder, is their something special about the English language or culture which has made it a great medium for innovative music?

And will there ever be another non Anglo country or region who will be as influential as the Anglo world when it come to shaping pop music around the world? Are there any emerging pop scene like those in China, which can potentially usurp the Anglo world, and become a major global cultural trendsetter?

It is part of the larger cultural domination that comes with economical domination.

Anglo markets at the midway point of the twentieth century were significantly larger, more prosperous, more homogeneous and well connected, and therefore were able to sustain a better environment for the creation and spread of mass pop culture.

The effects of these decades of superiority remain even now, thanks to a solid cultural foundation for meaning and tradition in the anglo pop sphere, and the atrophied distribution mechanism and popular contemporary imagination in subdued nations.

Not even just at the middle of the 20th century, it's pretty much since like... ancient Greece.

That's where the money is. That's where the people with the money are. THat's where the people with the free time are.

cause fuckin niggers got no culture

The british empire was huge

US cultural imperialism

not complaining by the way, yanks have given us some incredible stuff

The average Brit in the 60s and 70s was a poor working class chav, as the country was still suffering economically from the war. Yet Britain managed to have a larger impact on pop music and rock, than a country that was quite wealthy at the time and had 5 times the population(USA). I don't think wealth, and free time is such a big indicator of a nations artistic output, as the British Invasion has shown.

So was the French and Spanish empires.

>anglosphere
more like usa

england is on par with other nations such as germany, france, japan

>how is music from anglosphere the most popular in the anglosphere
fucking retard

Except most of the popular bands from the second half of the last century were british.
The most famous rock and pop rock bands are all british: Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, The Who, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, The Kinks, The Police, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Genesis, Yes, Jethro Tull, Iron Maiden, David Bowie...

brits like singing, germans like working and the french like protesting

who ends up with the best music, brits
who ends up with the best economy, germany
who ends up with the most riots, france

combine all these countries and throw in a bunch of niggers and you get the US.

nice dadrock, kid

>velvet underground
>bob dylan
>the doors
>slint
>frank zappa
>pixies
>neutral milk hotel
>talking heads
>television
>sonic youth
>tom waits
>the stooges
>wu-tang clan
>nas
>dj shadow
>90% of jazz

Niggers can't make music
>funk
>soul
>jazz
>early blues
>hip hop

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This isn't about popularity, as there's always going to be a language barrier that inhibits the widespread popularity of English music in non Anglo lands. But it's pretty obvious that Anglo music has had a big impact on all music scenes in most major countries. From Kpop, and Japanese punk To German/Scandinavian metal and African
Blues. These are all derivatives of genres pioneered in Britain and the US. Whilst there's not many music genres in Anglo countries that was initially pioneered somewhere else. Anglo countries have been the global trendsetters. The golden standard if you will.

I think us brits and the yanks are to ignorant to listen to pop music from other cultures that sing and speak on a different language. Why would the general populous listen to song after song without having a clue what they are singing about, especially when we have so much great music over here...plus a lot of western and non western countries learn English as a second language therefore may engage more with our pop music than we would with theirs....

They have money, others don't, it's not that hard to understand.

>implying there's no black people in Europe

How many third world shit holes can you name where their peoples could afford a transistor radio or a turn table in the 60s and 70s? Those were the main distribution channels record labels were pumping out the music to.
Now that computers are prevalent, you will start to see a more diverse collection of music out there. You just have to go find it.

3-5 % in france
3 % in the uk

This.

the west are the only parts of the world with culture

music doesn't exist outside of it

>anglo markets
>ancient Greece
The average third worlder during the cold war lived with few commodities aside from subsistence goods and chances are that he lived in the midst of serious social unrest.

Also, pointed good points about the conditions of the makers, but failed to aknowledge the direction of the flux of capital and the permeability of cultures to foreign influences. The US and UK where so permeable to each other back then that they almost formed a single unit (regarding pop culture) at least compared to the rest of the US sphere of influence (what would be known as first world) and specially in the case of the third world. The third world still created it's own pop but it encountered a much stronger resistance in the anglosphere and generally failed to fill a niche in other satelite cultures (ex: latin american pop didn't make it to South Asia, because the exchange was mediated by the anglosphere, which emited but rarely received)

FOURTEEN EGHTYEIGHT WHITE POWER HIEL HITLER

brown people are poor, starving, and getting bombed all the time so they probably sold all their instruments to the whites for food

only reasonable explanation

This thread is pretty much targeting all non Anglos, not just brown people. I still don't understand why let's say, Germany hasn't been as influential as the Brits when it comes to pop music innovation, considering theyre pretty wealthy and intelligent people, not to mention there's more 100 million German speakers. Why hasn't there been a pop genre created by a non Anglo European nation, that's as popular and well regarded as Rock or the blues? You can apply this to Japan and Korea too, whose pop music scenes are just Japanese/Korean derivati of American/British music genres.

Britain had fully recovered from the war by the 60s, that decade was a boomtime. The 70s was when everything slowed and got to a mess.

Cuz were the fucking master race duh

>comparing this meme list to those bands

the first few british artists in that list each are bigger than all of those put together