Why has Europe traditionally been a stronghold for electronic music?

As far as I know, there aren't many Americans, and Deadmau5 is one of the few Canadians.

North America was never ever friendly to disco music. It's was a rock dominated music culture for some time. There's a backlash against sampling, and midi too. Things are looking different with America totally eating up electro and dubstep, but we have to wait and see if it's just a trend or here to stay.

Yeah, I've read about that.

For some reason it continued to be popular with blacks, latinos and gay people.

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By 2020 I think it will be huge in America.

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I think so too.

I bring up the minority angle because I'm curious. Was it because it was a way to have their own music?

I happen to be gay myself, and a lot us of do like this stuff (although we don't admit it) for some reason. Are we wired to dance or something?

And why most of the greatest classical composers of all time were born in Europe?

To the second question, most of the great classical compositions people think of were created while Europe was full of superpowers and America hadn't been settled yet. There was still plenty of music being written in Africa and Asia, but the wide influence of Western music means that older, Western composers have kind of overshadowed them.

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Originally posted by arskinetica I think so too. I bring up the minority angle because I'm curious. Was it because it was a way to have their own music? I happen to be gay myself, and a lot us of do like this stuff (although we don't admit it) for some reason. Are we wired to dance or something?

have you ever been to europe?

its just as big there as it is here..

and theres just as much guys this side of the pond making this music..as over there..

sure they happen to have a lot more success due to more festivals..and a lot more indepedant records being thrown on the radio in europe compared to the states where only the big labels control what gets played..

besides that theres no difference...

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Originally posted by Scrittah To the second question, most of the great classical compositions people think of were created while Europe was full of superpowers and America hadn't been settled yet. There was still plenty of music being written in Africa and Asia, but the wide influence of Western music means that older, Western composers have kind of overshadowed them.

Not sure

in the 18th century America was just a bunch of europeans and the local natives, people who immigrated to America rarely were musicians, in the 15th and 16th century when America became established traveling by boat meant a year travelling plus a huge risk of death, only people who had loads of things to win and little to lose went there.

Now things have changed drastically and America is not the bandwagon of the world, the opposite indeed. But it's true there are few gifted artists for such a huge population compared to Europe, you have a lot of talent in Holland which is a pretty small country so i think social culture plays a role here.