Der Einfluß der iro-schottischen Musik auf die Entstehung des Jazz
While Irish melodies and their harmonic structures generally determined the American and British popular music, the Scottish fiddle-music by the way of hillbilly, country-music, cajun-music, cakewalk and ragtime influenced the origin and development of early Jazz. In the traditional Irish & Scottish music later jazz-elements like syncopated phrasing, blues notes, blues-scales, call and response singing, diddling, drum patterns etc. are in an adequate form evident.
Especially the fusion of the musical practice of the small string bands (string trios), which is based on the Irish-Scottish fiddle music, and the brass bands led to the emergence of New Orleans Jazz and Dixieland.