“Pop music has always depended upon the interaction between white and black traditions.” (Hatch and Millward, 1987)”
Blackness and whiteness can be seen as a way to define the origins of specific types of music. Few genres of music can withhold black and white tendencies, while some genres are more commonly known as owning either white or black tendencies. It has been made even more difficult to determine whether a genre is black or white based seeing as many songs have be written by one race but performed by another, i.e. Little Junior Parker first sung Mystery Train being a black artist, while Elvis Presley who was white took the song in later years for himself and it soon appealed to the masses. Thus rock actually being associated with black artists before hand. As countries are becoming multicultural and immigration increasing, popular music is becoming very culturally diverse, despite stereotypes of what music is black (i.e. Hip Hop) and what is white (i.e. Classical) still sticking in societies frameworks. Whatever race, anyone can perform a musical genre of their taste, and is done so (i.e. Black lead singer in Indie Punk band ‘Bloc Party’) which means styles of blackness and whiteness seem to be integrating.
Blackness and whiteness can be seen as a way to define the origins of specific types of music. Few genres of music can withhold black and white tendencies, while some genres are more commonly known as owning either white or black tendencies. It has been made even more difficult to determine whether a genre is black or white based seeing as many songs have be written by one race but performed by another, i.e. Little Junior Parker first sung Mystery Train being a black artist, while Elvis Presley who was white took the song in later years for himself and it soon appealed to the masses. Thus rock actually being associated with black artists before hand. As countries are becoming multicultural and immigration increasing, popular music is becoming very culturally diverse, despite stereotypes of what music is black (i.e. Hip Hop) and what is white (i.e. Classical) still sticking in societies frameworks. Whatever race, anyone can perform a musical genre of their taste, and is done so (i.e. Black lead singer in Indie Punk band ‘Bloc Party’) which means styles of blackness and whiteness seem to be integrating.
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This post is not bad but it does seem to wander down the odd blind alley.
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