Music has always seemed a place of great racial divisions, progressions and tensions. The birth of rock and roll stemmed from blues songs which were originally sung by african Americans. White record companies took these old blues tracks and re recorded them in a more upbeat tempo white white artists and essentially re marketed them. To a primarily white audience. In this sense there as always been black and white sides to the music industry with most big record companies branching out and having sub labels for black artists. In these modern times however the lines between black and white music have certainly been blurred. Music is no longer particularly branded by race. People of all races tend to enjoy a vast variety of music. However the stereotypical genres of white and black music have still yet to die out, they are so deep rooted in the way we appreciate music it will take a while and a few more people like Eminem until people universally realise that music is multicoloured.
This is reasonably interesting but was the audience for those repackaged blues tracks primarily white? Also where is the reference to theory here?
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