Did Blacks abandon Rock & Roll/Rock music and if so....why do you think that was?? (same for country music)
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i think it is more about the changes rock represented that black folks were apprenhensive to accept. if you wanted to buy certain music by black artist who didn't play your traditional r&b you would have to travel to get it and that means dealing with a certain group of white people at the mall. if they were playing in town, they chose venues that had more whites in the area then blacks, most black folks would give that a second thought. if they were on the cover of rolling stone or some other magazines that were open to black artist, we would look at them differently, in a nutshell this is what im saying= a percentage of black folks dont want to socialize or intermingle with white thru this music. this is why our fav artists lost a lot of their fan base when white show up at the concert and wore the tshirts and blast their music. the only music you can congregate with black folks now is gospel music
“The Masters,” which collects his decades of interviews with rock legends like Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen and Bono — all of them white and male.
In the interview, David Marchese of The Times asked Mr. Wenner, 77, why the book included no women or people of color.
Regarding women, Mr. Wenner said, “Just none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level,” and remarked that Joni Mitchell “was not a philosopher of rock ’n’ roll.”
His answer about artists of color was less direct. “Of Black artists — you know, Stevie Wonder, genius, right?” he said. “I suppose when you use a word as broad as ‘masters,’ the fault is using that word. Maybe Marvin Gaye, or Curtis Mayfield? I mean, they just didn’t articulate at that level.”
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What he said about being "articulate" in the music was some bullshit but lets be honest... there really isnt much black support or interest in rock & roll/Rock music and hasn't been since the early days of the genre. This discussion is about how and why that fall off happened and why it persists to this day.
I know real history:
Heard some blues songs that sounded exactly how country music sounds
No it became commercial and mainstream. When it hit Hollywood sitcom and cartoon characters started doing it like transformers g.i. joe and Charlie Brown started break dancing that's when it got lame. The West Coast was pop locking way back in the early 70s at the same the east started breaking.
