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The
Genre
Bullet Points
- Urban
is used as a marketing tool to (re-)package black music/culture.
It’s used a way of appropriating black music once it has proved
successful and denying black ownership.
- Urban
is robbing black people of their identity - some young people now see
themselves as urban, not black.
- Whites
are the largest consumers of black music, and urban makes black music
more accessible to white audience and white artists.
- It
is not the case that whites will not buy music if its black music.
White artists, from the Rolling Stones in the 1960s to Johnny Rotten
in the 1970s, went to source of black music, Chicago and Jamaica
respectively, and championed authentic black music.
- Urban
opens wider doors to (some genres of) black music.
- It’s
black music- a large body of different musical genres, not just
hip-hop or R&B.
- Being
black does not necessarily make you urban. Not all black people come
from urban environments.
- Urban
takes away black ownership and input, producing a package that is
inclusive and generally glosses over the serious black expression or
invention. Soon, it will be forgotten that rap was black, in the same
way that it has been forgotten that rock was originally black. People
now mostly think of Elvis Presley, and not of the likes of Chuck
Berry.
- Several
things, like the MOBOs, which began as a celebrating music of black
origin soon end up as no longer exclusively black.
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