TOO BLACK TOO STRONG!
:)
aziza
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Subject: Re: [313] not black enough
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 13:27:19 EST
when I use the term "Black" I am referring to people of the African
diaspora
and African musical influences.
Detroit Techno is not "Black" because Black people made it in the
begginning.
It is Black because it utilizes African musical concepts of rhythm instead
of
an European emphasis on melody. But I'm not going to stick to that too much
either because I'm sure that Africans utilize melody as well. But for the
sake of American radio and its racist programming I want to make this
distinction.
No one ever said that Detroit pioneers are and were not influenced by other
kinds of music. Yes Germany plays a big role because of Kraftwerk. But Juan
Atkins said the Kraftwerk told him their biggest influence is James Brown (
a
Black American rhythm master).
I want to recall Lester Kenyatta's post about the first people coming from
Africa and how strong their cultural contributions have been on the world.
No one is saying that music springs up out of nowhere, Kodwo Eshun says
that
music is its own genesis but I can't agree with that because that sounds
ahistorical but what I am saying is that this thing called Detroit Techno
comes from Detroit.
And these men and women are the pioneers of this music and that has
something
to do with the people who picked up on it later; they were listening to
these
folks.
I still don't quite understand this disbelief over "Blacks inventing music"
because I think that, that is a decontextualized statement.
Five
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