A: All music is Black music.
In honor of Black Music Month, two Black music nerds (Jermaine & Mike) discuss how musical genres have become racialized over the years--and why those restrictions are slowly falling apart in the 21st century. We talk about everything from discovering seminal Black rock bands like Bad Brains and Living Colour to finding out that the banjo and fiddle (among many instruments) have roots in Africa. Along the way, we discuss cultural appropriation and what that means, talk about the increasing number of Black faces in country music, and we pay tribute to the genre-bending Queen of Rock and Roll, the late, great Tina Turner.
Show Notes:
https://www.the-world-of-tina.com/story.html
https://vincedixonportfolio.com/app/black-music-history/#:~:text=Family%20Tree%20of%20American%20Music&text=The%20research%20shows%20that%20nearly,is%20a%20very%20flexible%20genre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS-FM_(brand)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Crocker
https://jagannathr.medium.com/what-is-the-relation-between-country-and-western-music-8439052b1f85
https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/black-banjo-reclamation-project-african-roots
https://www.harp.com/history-of-the-harp/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1PTAOBHBKA
https://www.vice.com/en/article/6wqvnb/zeal-and-ardor-interview
https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2012/01/31/142607358/local-groove-does-good-the-story-of-trip-hops-rise-from-bristol
http://jesse-serwer.com/babe-ruth-the-mexican/?utm_source=pocket_mylist
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