Phil Connor wrote:
THE HOT 100 // THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN MUSIC //
Blacks in music: 100 years of 100 high notes //HISTORY: Looking
back on the century's most important African-Americans in the field.
BEN WENER; STEVE EDDY;TIMOTHY MANGAN: The
Well these exercises serve only to rile of course, but what the hell is
Michael
Jackson doing perched on top of Robert Johnson and Bird Parker? I suppose
it
depnds on what "important" means. And why is the Orange County paper doing
this, of all places in the country?
Stuart
Well, to answer
Well, I think Lance is right about the alphabeticalness of the list, but
anyone who thinks Michael Jackson is not one of the 100 most influential
Black musicians of the twentieth century just isn't thinking very hard. If
there's room for Ulysses Kay - and I like his music as well as the next
