Most Interesting Country for Music

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Vote the country that has spawned your favorite artists, or has the most, best, most interesting, or most important music.
Or vote for the country you believe people should be paying more attention to, musically.


Unfortunately it didn't allow me to put in as many countries as came to mind....

[uninformdopinion]

Oops, I meant to put this in the Music forum, not Games. Can it be moved?

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East Germany

[benpaco]

[Satie]

it sorta snuck up on me this winter how much Eastern Europe might be my favorite region for experimental music between Romania and Poland. i'm one of those insufferable people who thinks the Teutonic (German) composition tradition is basically unmatched in the west pound-for-pound era-for-era, though the French actually get it together by the 20th century with the whole tape music thing. i listen most to American music and then English obviously, though my charts are indicating to me that Germany tends to beat England in the quality department, though that might change when I get around to my 2010s chart.

Jamaica has obviously had major cultural exchanges with England and the U.S. (and Germans Ernestus and Von Oswald of Basic Channel most of all!! hehe) that have resulted in some of my absolute favorite genres of music. between dancehall, dub, and reggae, Jamaica might have claim to a root genre or more of every form of music I actively seek out in new releases. Japan is tops for non-western countries according to my charts, though. I think the fact that Japan (Tokyo mainly) basically serves as a second or third base for New York- and Berlin-based avant-gardists in EAI and Noise mainly but in other genres too gives it that edge. Brazil and West African nations like Ghana, Nigeria, and Benin have rich traditions of improving on more traditional forms of jazz music so I listen to stuff from those places a lot.

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[Umbrella]

i think usa cause it has invented many different types of music and is my favorite

[Jimmy Dread]

[meccalecca]

Really impossible to assess. I agree with sentiments about Jamaica. I think any small country whose output is enormous is rather interesting. Nigeria, Ghana, and Mali are all pretty remarkable. The fact that we got a futuristic sounding record out of the Congo last year still baffles me.

Naturally, the United States is a melting pot for culture thanks to immigration and that's generally resulted in an incredibly unique output from this country over the past century which of course in a blink in time in comparison to much of the rest of the world
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