Wednesday, 7 May 2008
are Blackness&whiteness useful concepts in the study of popular music?
The concepts of blackness and whiteness are very difficult to define. It can be useful when looking at popular music as it does help when putting music into catorgories and looking at the beats and structure of a song. Some people find it useful to place music into these catorgories as it can give people an idea of what they can expect to listen to. However it is not always helpful to use these concepts as it disregards everything else and reduces everything down to race and many people listen to many genres of music regardless of the race/ethnicity of the artist. Ethnicity is still a very important topic in history but in terms of popular music in todays society it is not as important as the seperation is no longer there. Also artists are no longer confined to one genre of music that depends on whether they are black or white.
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I am not sure that the beats and structure of a song can necessarily be classified along racial lines. However, these terms might be of some use in researching the origin of a style (i.e, the roots of blues in the call and response of the cotton fields).
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