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The term encompasses listeners, performers and presenters. Joel Send a noteboard - 23/03/2010 04:42:55 PM
Namely, that calling something "black music" means that only black people (are supposed to) enjoy listening to it. Can't it mean that a) it originated among black people, and/or b) most artists within the genre are black, without implying c) it appeals exclusively (or even just mostly) to black listeners?

And I think it's unduly restrictive in each case. Most (but far from all) jazz musicians are black and most (but far from all) physicists are white; that doesn't make jazz "black" music any more than it makes physics "white" science. Only in the sense that jazz originated in Southern black culture and entered a renaissance in Northern black culture after the turn of the 20th century is the term valid, but it's moved far beyond that now, a fact we should recognize and celebrate. The days when it was born and matured were days when it WAS nearly exclusively black music because its country or origin was officially segregated in the South and unofficially in the North. America, and jazz, have grown beyond that, to the credit of both. Ignoring the political reality, the musical reality is that jazz is both too widely accessible and too influential in other musical genres to be so narrowly defined.
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I'd say that's pretty racist. - 22/03/2010 01:53:59 PM 873 Views
I don't think it's racist at all - 22/03/2010 07:15:55 PM 932 Views
Uh. - 22/03/2010 09:36:35 PM 1021 Views
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Not "higher" nor "lower," but "different" would be the word to use here - 29/03/2010 07:46:15 PM 819 Views
Re: Not "higher" nor "lower," but "different" would be the word to use here - 29/03/2010 07:53:56 PM 785 Views
An illustration of Larry's point... - 29/03/2010 08:14:55 PM 838 Views
This. ~points at Larry's post~ *NM* - 29/03/2010 07:42:35 PM 486 Views
Re: This. ~points at Larry's post~ - 29/03/2010 07:57:30 PM 869 Views
Um. - 29/03/2010 08:00:54 PM 1017 Views
Re: Um. - 29/03/2010 08:44:31 PM 822 Views
My question for you was on that one line that Larry responded to. - 29/03/2010 08:46:26 PM 857 Views
I was thinking the same thing as Rebekah - 23/03/2010 07:15:51 AM 878 Views
I don't see it - 22/03/2010 08:19:31 PM 883 Views
+1 *NM* - 22/03/2010 08:30:01 PM 467 Views
Re: +2 *NM* - 22/03/2010 09:53:43 PM 470 Views
Re: +3 *NM* - 22/03/2010 10:00:55 PM 451 Views
i'd say the actions in the commercial are more racist than the words - 22/03/2010 10:00:02 PM 847 Views
It would not float here in the US - 22/03/2010 10:07:08 PM 866 Views
Agreed. - 23/03/2010 05:36:14 AM 1027 Views
Could you please expand on one point in your reasoning? - 23/03/2010 07:20:31 AM 886 Views
It's not race specific music if it's enjoyed/performed/presented by various races. - 23/03/2010 07:32:33 AM 1126 Views
MOBO - 23/03/2010 10:20:22 AM 825 Views
Nice term, if a bit clumsy - 23/03/2010 11:10:34 AM 843 Views
The trouble lies in historical neuroses cooked in our melting pot, I think. - 23/03/2010 11:29:06 AM 871 Views
I suspect so as well - 23/03/2010 12:32:00 PM 972 Views
Well, the thing is, "American" is PURELY a culture, not a race. - 23/03/2010 01:55:59 PM 1100 Views
That's part of what I was thinking - 23/03/2010 07:50:19 AM 1222 Views
Only if it's racist to mention the fact that different races exist. Which seems to be the US view. - 23/03/2010 09:24:23 AM 862 Views
Agreed - 23/03/2010 10:21:59 AM 895 Views
Not at all, the problem is when people seem to say something is exclusive to a given race. - 23/03/2010 11:51:06 AM 1121 Views
I agree with some of what you say, but I think you're assuming more than is warranted. - 23/03/2010 02:33:34 PM 824 Views
perhaps not as default... - 23/03/2010 03:08:19 PM 911 Views
The term encompasses listeners, performers and presenters. - 23/03/2010 04:42:55 PM 921 Views
So it's really not about skin color any more, right? - 23/03/2010 09:12:20 PM 946 Views
it's racist and unacceptable. - 23/03/2010 09:07:10 PM 985 Views

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