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05-07-2007, 05:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | is music taste racisim?
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i find myself becoming more and more interested in the blues genre but i am also finding one other thing and that is that when listening to blues i prefer a white vocalist.
now i am by no means a racist, i have friends from every walk of life and i get offended whenever people use racial slurs. Everyone knows not to say anything like that around me.
but is this racism just liking a certain tone in the voice? it just seems that people of African descent have a certain tone in their voice that i do not perticualy enjoy listening to in this genre( i love it in funk and some more "fun" genres)
but i'm just asking is liking only white blus singers solely for the tone of voice racist?
also can you recommend some good blues artists for me |
05-07-2007, 05:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Indiana | | | This has got to be the most silly question I've ever seen. |
05-07-2007, 05:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Gladstone, QLD, Australia | | | music taste is predominately cultural, not racial...
many folks try to draw racial lines with music...and THIS is racism...
but to purists, there's nothing racial at all about music taste...
I don't like rap, but I wasn't raised in that urban culture...I really like funk and R&B, however...
I don't think you've listened to enough blues, yet...
many black singers do have a certain distinctive style...but again, I think that is predominately a cultural thing, not racial. |
05-07-2007, 05:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | | Its not racist at all.
Just like, if i said i prefer male vocals in hardcore punk music, it doesnt mean im a sexist.
Music is music, no part of race or creed should come into it (IMO)
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05-07-2007, 05:23 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: New York | | | not racist....now if you said you only liked white drummers and keyboard players too...that might be different.
as stated before ones preferance in vocals changes form person to person, and music is music.
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05-07-2007, 05:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Cerb  This has got to be the most silly question I've ever seen. | Yep
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05-07-2007, 05:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: New York | | | in addition...i havnt heard many white blues singers that i can really get into...some clapton...thats about it.
to each his own.
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05-07-2007, 05:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | yea i actualy like female white blues singers the best :P and that strange cause its the only genre i prefer females. |
05-07-2007, 05:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: New York | | | susan tedesky is awesome....and married to derek trucks...very cool modern musical couple.
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05-07-2007, 05:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: New York | | | similarly the only real country western stuff i can listen to is when there is a female vocalist...otherwise i absolutely can not tolerate country western music(with male vocalists).
the two exceptions are johny cash and john prine, who i love. :-)
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05-07-2007, 05:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | yea but johnny cash is a bit bluesy so that make him better. I like the moby cover of run on :P I'll check out those people you mentioned.
I love Tom Waits he is like a modern experimental and blues guy
I like to find random unsigned artists on myspace as well. |
05-07-2007, 06:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | By the way if your going to sugest some artists i prefer piano and bas driven then guitar, it can be very annoying in blues. AND I LOVE SAX! |
05-07-2007, 06:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Western PA | | | Of course it's not racist. Your preferences are your preferences, period.
This inherent 'white guilt' thing has to stop.
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05-07-2007, 06:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Diggler Of course it's not racist. Your preferences are your preferences, period.
This inherent 'white guilt' thing has to stop. | The OP might be black 
(can a black person have white guilt? interesting...)
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05-07-2007, 07:03 AM
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05-07-2007, 07:24 AM
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05-07-2007, 08:03 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Karl Hoyt Basses | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: upstate NY | | | I'm sorry, but if you are claiming to be able to tell the color of a vocalist purely by listening you are full of fudge.
By this "logic" then, you wouldn't like John Hammond because he sounds "black"?
+1 to one of the silliest questions I've ever seen here.
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05-07-2007, 08:09 AM
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05-07-2007, 08:55 AM
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Originally Posted by ALiP BoB Sigh, what ISN'T racism nowadays? | agreed.
i actually dont like most american blues. i think the british did it better. just my .02 |
05-07-2007, 10:04 AM
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i think the british did it better
| Wow.
That's all.
Just
Wow.
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