![]() Watch a mere silhouette of a human being dancing to music, and you can immediately guess things about who they are and where they came from. How else do you create a situation in which, after decades of hip-hop’s being the main engine of pop music, it can still be a little complicated when nonblack people rap? That vexed thing we call “identity” leans its considerable weight on all kinds of questions: which sounds comfort us or excite us where and how we listen to them how we move our bodies as they play. But music is still, pretty obviously, tied to people. Then all of this changed, and we decided to start thinking of pop music not as a folk tradition but as an art we started to picture musicians as people who invented sounds and styles, making intellectual decisions about their work. Even when it was played in a condescending ethnic-joke burlesque of who those people actually were - even when it was pretty aggressively racist - the notion remained: Different styles sprang from different people. ![]()
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