 Or favorite music would not exist without Black people. EDM owes a lot to both Jamaican dub music as well as House. The latter was pioneered by Black DJs in Chicago in the 70s and 80s, and was even named after the Black Gate Club, The Warehouse. The modern banjo, without which there would be no country music, because there would be no bluegrass music, because there would be no Appalachian music, was invented by kidnapped and enslaved Black people who brought the design concept from West Africa. Sister Rosetta Tharp recorded what's considered by many to be the first rock record, combining a traditional Black spiritual with her legendary skills on guitar. No surprise, she's known as the godmother of rock and roll. Sidebar, the father, also Black.