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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Is it racist?: Commercial for Jazz/Soul radio
- 22/03/2010 01:47:45 PM
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I don't think it's racist at all
- 22/03/2010 07:15:55 PM
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Uh.
- 22/03/2010 09:36:35 PM
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Re: Uh.
- 29/03/2010 07:03:14 PM
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I'm not Dutch, but that was a pretty ignornant claim
- 29/03/2010 07:20:09 PM
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Re: I'm not Dutch, but that was a pretty ignornant claim
- 29/03/2010 07:28:34 PM
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Not "higher" nor "lower," but "different" would be the word to use here
- 29/03/2010 07:46:15 PM
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Re: Not "higher" nor "lower," but "different" would be the word to use here
- 29/03/2010 07:53:56 PM
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This. ~points at Larry's post~ *NM*
- 29/03/2010 07:42:35 PM
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Re: This. ~points at Larry's post~
- 29/03/2010 07:57:30 PM
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Um.
- 29/03/2010 08:00:54 PM
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Re: Um.
- 29/03/2010 08:44:31 PM
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My question for you was on that one line that Larry responded to.
- 29/03/2010 08:46:26 PM
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She agrees with you about it not being racist - she had issues with your "crude" comment.
- 29/03/2010 08:59:44 PM
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I don't see it
- 22/03/2010 08:19:31 PM
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i'd say the actions in the commercial are more racist than the words
- 22/03/2010 10:00:02 PM
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It would not float here in the US
- 22/03/2010 10:07:08 PM
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Agreed.
- 23/03/2010 05:36:14 AM
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Could you please expand on one point in your reasoning?
- 23/03/2010 07:20:31 AM
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It's not race specific music if it's enjoyed/performed/presented by various races.
- 23/03/2010 07:32:33 AM
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MOBO
- 23/03/2010 10:20:22 AM
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The trouble lies in historical neuroses cooked in our melting pot, I think.
- 23/03/2010 11:29:06 AM
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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
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Agreed
- 23/03/2010 10:21:59 AM
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Some people are like that, yes, but at least it isn't the "accepted" media position. Yet. *NM*
- 23/03/2010 11:01:47 AM
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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
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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
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The term encompasses listeners, performers and presenters.
- 23/03/2010 04:42:55 PM
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