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Because it's a Western-centric term. Black/White don't fall into the same category.
I understand. Oriental has been placed in the same category as Negro. But it's funny how those who claim the term African American is inappropriate for our ethnicity never seem to make the same argument for Asian American.
You mean young black kids don't grow up wanting to be the next Muddy Waters anymore?
Or Lightnin' Hopkins, Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, "Mississippi" John Hurt, Elmore James, Leadbelly, Big Bill Broonzy, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith and all the other great "Delta Blues" musicians of that era. That was the foundation of all the great rock bands of the 60's and 70's.
Then there's Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Wonder, Bill Withers, and Robert Cray.
Probably every ethnic culture dies out once its been here long enough.
Were I'm from (Boston) Southie isn't Irish and the Northend and East Boston aren't Italian. South Boston and the Northend are just kids post college and East Boston is more Latino than anything else.
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Or Lightnin' Hopkins, Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, "Mississippi" John Hurt, Elmore James, Leadbelly, Big Bill Broonzy, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith and all the other great "Delta Blues" musicians of that era. That was the foundation of all the great rock bands of the 60's and 70's.
Then there's Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Wonder, Bill Withers, and Robert Cray.
How they evolved from that to "rap" is beyond me?
Rap didn't evolve from African-American music forms like jazz, blues, rhythm & Blues, etc. Rap has its origins in relatively recent dance party DJing from Jamaica.
At these dance parties, the DJ would make introductions and toasts to prominent party goers.
Those toasts would be given during instrumental sections in the music and evolved into a rhyming form. This origin in toasting is why many rap songs, especially early on in the 80s, involved so much name dropping and introducing the names of rappers and their friends. "My name is <...> and I'm here to say..."
To stay germane to the topic, I just worked my local State Fair and saw a hefty handful of country music concerts. You might be surprised how many black musicians and fans there were, even here in New Mexico which isn't exactly the blackest state in the union.
Rap didn't evolve from African-American music forms like jazz, blues, rhythm & Blues, etc. Rap has its origins in relatively recent dance party DJing from Jamaica.
At these dance parties, the DJ would make introductions and toasts to prominent party goers.
Those toasts would be given during instrumental sections in the music and evolved into a rhyming form. This origin in toasting is why many rap songs, especially early on in the 80s, involved so much name dropping and introducing the names of rappers and their friends. "My name is <...> and I'm here to say..."
To stay germane to the topic, I just worked my local State Fair and saw a hefty handful of country music concerts. You might be surprised how many black musicians and fans there were, even here in New Mexico which isn't exactly the blackest state in the union.
When we were living in the New York metro area "rap" was all we heard blaring out the windows of vehicles that raced through our neighborhood and out on the highway. It would rattle the windows in our house. At least to me it all sounded the same. I don't even consider it to be music. Just rhythmic shouting to a loud thunderous beat. It wasn't just blacks that listened to it. In fact is was more white wanna' be gangsta's thinking they were a badass. With the attitude that: Yeah, I'm gonna' blast that noise, what are you gonna' do about it?
I thank God that we now live in your neighboring state to the west. After 7 years we've yet to hear any of it. I guess it's a different culture out here? A culture that we're glad to be living amongst.
I think it will never die out. Sure, many of us black millennials want to get away from the poverty, low paying jobs, terrible schools, and boring lifestyle in rural/small town areas but at the same time we have roots here from generation after generation so it's going to be hard for some of us to leave. It will never die out because nearby big cities metropolitan areas are getting too crowded and urban sections of some big cities are currently under gentrification meaning economic developers tear down and kicking out people from inner city black neighborhoods so they could build condos, retail stores, restaurants, and etc. When that happen African Americans relocate either the suburbs or return back to the rural areas to be close to their families.
I hope not. Some of the finest people I knew were African American rural folk when I was growing up.
I think the past 20 years have been stale, sterile and culturally void for all of us. I see a "back to our roots" revival for all of us, black, white or other. This pretentiousness that has invaded the soul needs to be purged
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