I think that taking the results of one poll that suggests that teens are interested in more singer-songwriter and guitar- driven music, and framing it as racism is a bit over the top, Michael. The music biz, and young consumers (especially white ones!) seem to be pretty color blind when it comes to music (dispite overtly racist propaganda from M&M). But I think in your over-zeal to prove your point, you may have missed the possibility that young people are longing for the SINGER part of "singer-songwriter". Sure Blige, Badu and others DO sing-and wonderfully-but the lions' share of Hip-Hop type stuff has been gutted of melody. Even Lauren Hill, with her beautiful voice, has opted in most of her material to do the rap thing. Rapping isn't singing, it's rythmic talking. Not that that's bad, just that they are two different things, and young people might be longing for what's missing in alot of today's music: Music! Running for cover, RR, who is not convinced that a turntable is an instrument.
Michael Yarbrough wrote: > And yes, I think a certain implicit racism accompanies > this mental order. No need to dredge up the > intellectual/political/military history of colonial > racism here, but I think it is no secret that the
