Are blackness and whiteness useful concepts in the study of popular music?
‘Pop music has always depended upon the interaction between white and black traditions” Hatch & Milward(1987) The titular two concepts are simply sub-categories of Popular Music, and when studying Popular music one must acknowledge the other categories, which may or may not de-value the concept of ‘race’ especially in comparison to factors such as class, culture and social background. However it does stand as a theoretical starting point; some people feel the lines of blackness and whitness have merged, others feel there is an animosity between the two because history has shown that a corporation will find/ create a white artist as an alternative to the new form of musical art created by Black people.
However the lines between Black ‘Afro- American’ music and white ‘European’ music have been blurred for there are Black artist performing and creating European music and vica-versa therefore I think it is fair to comment that blackness and whiteness are becoming ever more futile in music as they are in society.
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