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re: The lack of African Americans in Rock n Roll today
Posted on 2/28/16 at 10:24 pm to FightinTigersDammit
Posted on 2/28/16 at 10:24 pm to FightinTigersDammit
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Sometime in the 60s, to blacks, the blues became 'slave music', and decidedly unhip.
I guess no one bothered to tell Jimi Hendrix.
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Posted on 2/29/16 at 5:55 am to Treacherous Cretin
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Sometime in the 60s, to blacks, the blues became 'slave music', and decidedly unhip.
quote:
I guess no one bothered to tell Jimi Hendrix.
Already mentioned as one of the very few exceptions.
Posted on 2/29/16 at 5:56 pm to Treacherous Cretin
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I guess no one bothered to tell Jimi Hendrix.
The 60's was the last decade in which black blues musicians were mainstream. By the late 70's the only big blues musicians outside of BB King and a handful of others were all white. The coming generations of black kids shunned the blues in favor of a then emerging hip-hop scene.
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