What Is Black music?
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What Is Urban Music?
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Should it be African or Music
Of African Origin?
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Black music is everything they call urban
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Inner-city
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It is linked to certain types of music mainly
from Africa e.g. Fela Kuti
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Music from the soul
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Patronising
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It’s Black music because it is about the same
collective struggle
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Music created by people from the African
diaspora
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Marketing black culture within the context of
creating better race relations
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It is related but is not same as music made
from the diaspora.
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It should infuse some African mother tongue
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A marketing label that makes it comfortable for
a white artist to make black music
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There’s the language problem. Lack of
understanding of our mother tongues
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It must be identifiably Black Culture
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The crossover zone
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Black Americans will not go for it. They have a
very superficial appreciation of Africa and anything African
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Black music is my life, my look
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Black music, notably hip-hop, rap, R&B
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Deals with issues that directly affect Black
people
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A way of separating popular Black music,
notably hip-hop, rap, garage, dancehall reggae
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Should NOT be compromised
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Mainly white artists doing black music
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Should urge escape from the reality of
oppression
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Taking Black music from black people
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‘Black music’ is profitable/marketable,
hence the term ‘urban music’.
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Marketing Black culture as inclusive but not
necessarily with Black tag
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