The essay is "I'm not strange: Black people in Rock Music" (title pending).
Basically the purpose of the essay is to talk about Black people's contribution to rock music throughout history, particularly focusing on modern days (post-1980).
Basically it started after I watched the documentaries
Electric Purgatory and
Afro Punk, and my own personal experiences when listening to metal in the 80s. What I am trying to impart is that, it should not be strange when I go to metal concerts, just like it isn't strange when white people go to rap concerts. I get it from both white and black people. White people tend to treat me as a curiosity, and they question my "metal-ness" (I will say, it is lessened with the Progpower crowd, however I was the belle of the ball when I wore my "I ♥ black metal" T-shirt and everyone wanted to take a pic with me. While I didn't mind so much, it did leave me feeling a bit strange about the whole episode) , whereas with black folk I am "acting white" (whatever the fuck that means) or I am Satanic :Smokedev:.
The reason I asked for metal bands with black people in them, is to show that we've been doing it for decades, more of us are doing it now (I have friends that will listen to Kanye West, and then turn around and listen to Opeth back to back) and we're being successful at it (KSE, God forbid, Living Colour in the 80s, etc)
I'm just trying to blur the lines as to "White people do this... Black people do that".
Clear as mud?
Ja
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