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I'm not saying those genres didn't exist, I'm saying that when the baby boomers were growing up, music was MUCH more segregated than it is now. White people in
by InitialLastName 6y ago
I'm not saying those genres didn't exist, I'm saying that when the baby boomers were growing up, music was MUCH more segregated than it is now. White people in white areas were marketed music for white people, and v.v. for black people.
For a long time, much of the business of Nashville was recording two versions of every song, one by a black person for a black audience, one by a white person.
Hell, both Elvis and the British invasion were underlined by white people covering classic blues songs (and selling it to white audiences who didn't know they were covers).
- 082349872349872 6y agoOne of my tinfoil conspiracy theories is that an unstated reason for the PMRC during the 1980s was not necessarily the "filthiness" of domestic music, but also that disco, never having died with the same finality in europe it that had domestically, had non-segregated audiences, and by the eurodance period, even featured integrated acts. The Revolution (Prince) is an obvious counterexample, but they're post-Boomer (assuming 13 is the age for setting musical taste :-) Charley Pride is a (the?) counterexample for Nashville. Edit: a, not the. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Country_Music_Hall_of_Fame_inductees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Country_Music_Hall_of_... (but DeFord Bailey was pre-Boomer)