Why do white people always seem to feel like they need to have an interest in what black people are listening to, and that the entire African-American population listens to the same music?

Besides, I was talking about audience, not output.

Because if they used white ink, no-one would be able to read them...(Rimshot)

Seriously, only idiots would ever think that...just ask the Bad Brains.

multicultixpost.

Would such a thread possibly exist?
I mean the answer is so obviously YES! - a lot of white people do indeed like hip-hop.

So, if lots of white people like hip-hop, then why shouldn't a similar percentage of black people like indie too?

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but Alex, you *like* Killing Joke. We differ fundamentally.

Just out of curiosity, when did you see the Bad Brains? i.e. who was in the band at the time? What album were they pushing at the time? etc. If you saw them when Chuck Mosely was filling in for H.R., I could imagine them not being as great. Likewise, if you saw them circa God of Love when H.R's sanity was at its most tenuous, I could also see them sucking.

The Damned live have always been fun, incidentally (though less so in recent years).

"Well, people who are really into music make music."

Sorry, but this is just complete bullshit. Before you get cranky, I'm a musician. However, I don't buy into the idea that loving music makes you a musician, any more than loving film makes you a filmmaker. Heard the theory before, just seems like elitist "I'm in a band" wonkery to me.

If you had phrased it as "People who make music are really into music.", I wouldn't have had any gripe with it. What you said, however, is not the same thing. So I wouldn't rest that case just yet...

Still, if you didn't intend it in the way I thought you did, I'm willing to bury the hatchet and stop derailing the thread.

but some whites DO listen to just one genre of music. I know very few. But they exist.

In any case, there are some people that listen to one genre of music, and there are more that listen to more genres.. period.

Until someone can garner a legit survey of music listening habits from all races from all cities from all countries (as if "white" and "black" people are the only races around), i'm ignoring these threads.

over and out.

On another note, is there a correlation between black Americans and improvisational skills? Hence why many of the fields that they dominate in in America tend to require that? Whether it be musical genres, athletic positions or other fields that seem to be about split-second decision making.

Zero. I guess some people do, but being young (especially for this board), I think my generation has seen more genre mashups and splitups etc. than you old folks, so even kids who listen only to pop radio are exposed to multiple genres.

um, no.

Um, they don't.

Hahaha, and when black people started copping blues riffs it became "jazz," right?

-- mrjosh (jrothma...), May 21st, 2005 9:57 AM. (later) (link)

I'll point out my post was made in response to the influx of threads concerned with what black people are listening to.

No, just correct.

Dr. David Thorpe's latest blog entry, has a few really funny ones about race and music..I thought it was fitting for such an inane thread..

http://a.abc.com/primetime/whoselineisitanyway/images/gallery/whos_careystiles.jpg

Maybe they/we don't want to miss something good?

and that the entire African-American population listens to the same music?

Uh, what?

I mean, black people usually don't care, it is mainly white people, into black music, who have this fixation.

lock thread pls