Race is a prominent aspect of life, therefore any part of popular culture has to be influenced and refer to it to some degree. Often there is too much emphasis on the divide between black and white, especially in today's politically correct society.
Many key genres and legendary artists have been created through the transferral of what can be seen as “black” and “white” music- Elvis Presley covering black artists to make hugely famous hits and often said to spark the Roll n Roll genre, Eric Clapton covering Bob Marley and making his music accessible to the mainstream, Eminem as a white raper, and Jay-Z more recently covering classics such as Wonderwall to evolve the RnB genre.
Blackness and Whiteness is often merged in popular music by these ever developing genres. It takes away the barriers and allows artists to create new ways to express their cultural identity to match the ever changing multicultural world, but also allows them to be dependent on each other.
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There is something odd going on with your blogs. Whenever I go to mark them on a Monday they are not there yet when I look the following week the date and time stamps suggest that they were posted in time.
ReplyDeleteThis is, overall, a pretty good assessment of so called black and white music but it is less useful in actually answering the question about the use of the terminology.