Mark Knecht wrote / a écrit:
My
unintelligible comment about black artists was only that this week
everything on
the radio is hip hop, rap or what passes taday as R&B, even
though I have a hard time equatig Beyonce Knowles, no matter how good
looking or talented she is, with R&B. Nothing on commercially driven radio
around her has anythign to do with, again, "that whole rock/blues and jazz
legacy".
Hi Mark, hi all.
I'm not a native english speaker, so perhaps I totally misunderstand this sentence,
but anyway there I go:
Talking this way about a color (of a skin I believe) and music is really disturbing me.
Isn't Rock, blues and jazz are all coming from "black" people, even if today
there is mainly white people playing this music?
Rap is actually played by black musicians, but isn't Eminem a white boy? Looking at
the past, I can predict that in twenty-thirty years, hip-hop, rap and so-called R&B
will be played by white musicians. At this time, black musicians may be well playing
something new that some white musicians will hate...
So again, if I misunderstand the tone/sense of the Mark's Knecht text, sorry for
jumping on this like this.
Disclaimer: I'm white and there are colored people in my family. I'm leaving in
France.
cheers
GuyCLO~
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