Thursday, 8 May 2008
Week 9 - Are blackness and whiteness useful concepts in the study of popular music?
It is common fact that different types of music are followed predominantly by different ethnicities. Conventionally, colour does have an impact on different types of music but these conventions of different genres of music are constantly being challenged. The dominance of acts like Eminem and Westwood on the rap scene is proof on it’s own that although rap is mainly followed by black people, there is always room for other races to produce their music in the same genre. Alternatively, like rap, indie music has a very large white following and it is rare to see black acts and when performers like Kele Okereke (lead singer of Bloc Party) enter the frey, the same concepts arise but the same outcome is achieved… successful music. Different types of music will always be associated with different cultures but the fact that the colour of skin can be a factor in making an act stand out in a certain field can only be a good thing for the music industry!
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Is it a common fact that 'different types of music are followed predominantly by different ethnicities'? I am not sure that it is. Perhaps what you meant, in the case of something like Rap, is that the origin of this music can be traced along racial lines, but even this is not quite as simple as it may seem.
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