Michael Roufa
@mekkaokereke An incredible resource for music history is Andrew Hickey's "History of Rock Music in 500 Songs." https://500songs.com/ Highly recommend, it shows clearly how rock started as Black music and became co-opted by white musicians.
From this I learned many Black music styles we don't call rock today would have been called rock at the time; white writers in the 70s claimed the term for guitar driven white music and invented names like "girl groups" for groups like The Marvelettes.
mekka okereke :verified:
What I do think should happen, is that music listeners should understand that what they think of as "Black music" is just a subset of Black music seen through a lense of racism.
US history is full of beauty, violence, wonder, racism, justice, evil, hope, misogyny, respect for others, more racism, collaboration, religious intolerance, and finally, even more racism. The US is a fantastic contradiction, and we rap and sing about it. You can't just take the worst parts, and call that "Black music"
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