American radio just like everything in America is divided into "White" and
"Black."
Detroit Techno is not considered "Black" because it is not embraced by Vibe
magazine or programmed onto R & B station formats.
Rock and Roll is seen as a "white" music even though its innovators are
"Black" ;Chuck Berry, Ike Turner, and others. So that a "Black" rock, funk
and roll band like Fishbone (all "Black" band) can not be sold to the public
by most marketing departments at major labels because they don't know how to
sell this "Black" band doing "white" music.
Wynton Marsalis ("Black") is a superb Classical musician and a mediocre jazz
player. When he won grammies one year for the best jazz and classical albums
the people who run Jazz at Lincoln Center (New York CIty Jazz Program) gave
him charge over that program. The implication is that they would rather have
a "Black" man in charge of "Black" music like jazz instead of a "White" music
like classical.
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