Monday, February 20, 2012

Black Music, White People / White Music, Black People - PopMatters

From http://www.popmatters.com By Mark Reynolds

But as far back as the '20s, record companies started referring to the music white country musicians made as “old-time”, and drew clear categorical distinctions between it and the blues music the black folks were making, the better to help keep white record buyers from unwittingly giving their hard-earned coin to a black performer. Those distinctions stuck, to the point ... The Story of Northern Soul: A Definitive History of the Dance Scene that Refuses to Die. (Portico; US: Aug 2011) ...

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