In the broadest sense, black musicians laid the groundwork for hip-hop and rock music and many other genres. So you could say they were responsible for the transition from an established genre to a new one
But white people took those foundations in rockabilly and spun them off in directions that I find far more interesting and enjoyable than any of that early rock & roll music of the 50's by the black artists. Would we have seen the same amount of innovation if the genre had been left alone exclusively to black culture? I doubt it.
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