Posted on 12/28/2021 12:12:06 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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NPR music critic Ann Powers uncorked a long, unforgiving treatise on how it doesn’t matter that the Beatles were progressive and loved Black music because they were still somehow part of making rock music white and exclusionary: “Rock’s defining narrative still stands alongside others that reflect the historic segregation of Anglo-American social spheres.”
The Beatles and the Rolling Stones wouldn’t play segregated venues and paid tribute to Black musicians who inspired them. But Powers wrote, “As they became rock’s norm, they allowed white fans to enjoy what the late great music writer Greg Tate identified as a pasteurized form of Black culture.” Tate called it “everything but the burden.”
They “allowed white fans” to eat a Velveeta cheese version of Black music.
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NPR is reasserting its familiar ideology. This is where many readers would check out after a few hectoring paragraphs. Can’t you just love the Beatles without feeling like you’re reinforcing an “informally segregated sphere”?
This is not how people listen to music any more than people only limit themselves to one ethnicity of food. The alleged racism here is about definitions: what is rock; what is pop; what is rhythm and blues. This artificially sets up the genre of rock to be a white, male preserve because many of its stars are white men.
But the “familiar hierarchy” of white people also loved the Motown sound and embraced its virtuoso Black performers and innovators such as Stevie Wonder. You can love rock, jazz, country and classical. You can have them all on your playlist.
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(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Well John and Yoko did do a song called, “Woman Is the N____ of the World”
“I see you did something. Why are you such a racist?”
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail........................
So “Get Back” was really a slap at rosa parks? Is that what npr (OUR FRIGGIN’ TAX DOLLARS) sees? I have a strong dislike for those assclowns. Playing a jam Thursday night and we may have to do some beatles tunes. I’ll have my black buddy sing them.
Wow! The Beatles are racist now?
What’s strange is targeting this at the Beatles, one of the ‘60s band which ripped off black musicians the least, once they were well-established. At least far less than the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, the Who...
NPR is a bunch of sick commie bass turds.
You'd think Billy Preston would have protested.
John Lenon and George Harrison unavailable for comment.
Uhh... Actually. Funny thing. That’s a black bear. But polar bears and Brown bears turn out to be different races of the same species. The liberals are trying to explode the number of species, so as to call each one an “endangered species.” But the reality is that there are far fewer discrete species, not more, than we once thought.
LOL!
and why should i care a whit what Ann Powers thinks?
And all Beatles/Who/Stones fans, racist bastards, hate Jimi Hendrix! /src
We are all racists. Especially if we sing the "Yesterday" song, reminiscing about when President Trump occupied the White House.
"Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away..."
Because using white bears would be racist!
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