With the genres I'm familiar with there's clearly a lot of cross pollination between ethnic groups in the US and it's very hard to tell who "started it". I fee

With the genres I'm familiar with there's clearly a lot of cross pollination between ethnic groups in the US and it's very hard to tell who "started it". I feel pretty strongly that with music - disparate influences makes it better. Or maybe I just say that because I like detroit techno...