on 6/16/00 9:03 AM, Otto Koppius at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> as far as blues and rock goes, you need to maybe take >> AMERICAN history and learn that not only was blues and ragtime and rock >> WIDELY accepted by american audiences when they were created, > > Not when they were created, only when they were presented to the general > public as being produced by white people, regardless whether they were > from Europe or the US. That pattern has been repeated too often to > ignore and it suggests that there is a (most likely subconscious?) > racial bias to music acceptance.
I have had a nagging thought since I read this, and that is that I believe the racial bias does not rest with the public. Rather, it rests with the distribution decisions being made by the labels. The blame rests more with the assumptions made in the executive suites than on the street. The C-Pop stage at DEMF reinforced this for me. Many of the people who were bugging out and getting truly funky will never be presented that music outside of that context. Yet they appeared to be loving it. It's the curse of market research. You never really know if you have a diamond on your hands. But you can always tell if it's dogshit. Risks are not taken. Business axiom: it's better to be second with a proven good idea, than first with an unproven one. "people are changing..." - H.Hancock -- There4IM
