mmm.funny you say this, i must say that a lof of times i am surprised that a
certain producers is a white-coloured person...especially when i hear some
of the smooth afrofunk stuff etc. that's produced.....i must say that one of
the main things i love about house/garage/nujazz/drum 'n bass/whatever funky
quality music is the integration and mixing of all kinds of racial
influences.....white guys/gals producing amazing afrofunk, coloured people
producing amazing kraftwerk influenced electro/techno, brasilians producing
UK born drum 'n bass, germans producing brasilian oriented house music.....i
love it! :)
some "funny"? stories: Rae and Christian did a session once with bobby
womack...when they showed up at his door he was amazed that these 2 white uk
guys where actually producing this soulfull music he heard from them, he
really thought they where black guys...
in an interview A Guy called Gerald, who now lives in the states, told that
a lot of times when he spoke to black people in the states they couldn't
believe that there were also black people living in the UK....the world was
either divided in african people or afro-americans...
Olaf
----- Original Message -----
From: B. Young <bjy07@hotmail.com>
To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Sent: zaterdag 31 maart 2001 16:03
Subject: This Music & Race
> I'd like to get something off my chest. I had a conversation recently
with
> my brother who i havent heard from in a long time. I was talking to him
> about the music I'm playing and he says... "well, I know some white boys
> that might be interested". I was immediately offended and jumped all over
> him saying "these are black artists, black people developed this shit!".
He
> was fully surprise as I ran out the mouth about techno, house, acid jazz,
> drum n bass and how a good majority of the originators and producers of
> electronic music were/are black. He then apologized and said "well now i
> know".
>
> A LOT of people I know consider this stuff "white" music and can't
conceive
> of black people making anything except hip hop or r&b. I've had this
> conversation with at least a dozen people. People are always surprised as
I
> run down the list of all the black artists that create electronic music.
> It's like the only black music in there heads is hip hop, r&b, and then
jazz
> is for old people. Don't get me wrong, I do know people who aren't
ignorant
> on this subject, but the majority of people are.
>
> At what point has this music been considered by the masses to be
"white"?...
> at least here in America most people consider techno, house, and most so
> called underground types of music as white or rave music. Was it a result
> of the rave thing? I understand most of rave music could be considered
> 'white', at least in this part of the world, but there is so much dope
> soulful ethnic music that gets labeled as white in the minds of those who
> don't know. The stuff I collect isn't getting any play at raves. All the
> raves i ever went to played shitty techno, house, trance and weak ass
> jungle. Its so frustrating. The race of the producers has never been an
> issue with me untill recently.
> As i browse my collection it just so happens that 80% of it or more is by
> various peoples of color from around the world. I didnt consiously plan
it
> that way. I don't care what race these guys are (well, I guess it does
make
> me feel more proud of my collection now that I realize most of these guys
> are of color). My question is when did this music become "white" music.
> And do the masses in other countries think the same way? Why the hell do
> black people equate electronic music with white people? Before anybody
jumps
> to conclusions, I am not ignoring the contributions white people have made
> to this music... some of the best artists around are white. I'm just
really
> tired of people calling it "white music". Whats up with that? And
finally,
> there is a huge amount of electronic music circulating that i'm completely
> unaware of... is most of it in fact created by white people?
>
> Beau.
>
>
>
>
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