[lbo-talk] Black music makes history

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Thu Oct 9 06:52:54 PDT 2003



> ABC (Australia) Radio "The World Today" Tuesday, 7 October , 2003
12:44:09
>
> Reporter: Rafael Epstein
>
> ELIZABETH JACKSON: Popular music has finally recognised its roots. For
the
> first time since the dawn of rock n' roll, none of the artists in the
top
> ten singles charts in the United States are white.
>
> For more than half a decade white musicians have been appropriating
black
> music. Now with rap and r'n'b dominating music around the world, black
> musicians for the first time hold every spot on the most important
barometer
> of popular music, the top ten singles in the American Billboard music
> charts.

Ironically, (c)rap is virtually unknown in Africa. So much for the "roots."

This posting is a piece of the worst racist crap I've seen for some time.

Wojtek



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