In reply to eric.

“Black American musical traditions” stemmed from white American musical traditions, duh. It was a blending of the two cultures which actually is a beautiful thing. My “culture vultures” comment was a facetious comment. Playing on how blacks say it about everything, yet no one is actually a culture vulture. It doesn’t exist. Culture is ever-changing and evolving. Cultures blend with other cultures and one as an entirely new culture of that part of the world, country, city etc.