zephonic Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 D-Bon's link in the bottled water thread unearthed this gem: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/11/18/116-black-music-that-black-people-dont-listen-to-anymore/ local: Korg Nautilus 73 | Yamaha MODX8 away: GigPerformer home: Kawai RX-2 | Korg D1 | Roland Fantom X7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana. Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Does this qualify? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonysounds Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 I guess I am not whiteits news to me. If you saw me dance, you would swear I was white. But I can unequivocally say that 1: I would much rather watch TV than listen to jazz; 2: I dont like wine; 3: Ive never worn a fedoraor a porkpie hat; 4: Ive seen The Wackness, but this article is more wackness than that movie. Hitting "Play" does NOT constitute live performance. -Me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepay Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 I would much rather watch TV than listen to jazz; +1,000,000 Steve (Stevie Ray) "Do the chickens have large talons?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeT156 Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 That article is racist. Mike T. Yamaha Motif ES8, Alesis Ion, Prophet 5 Rev 3.2, 1979 Rhodes Mark 1 Suitcase 73 Piano, Arp Odyssey Md III, Roland R-70 Drum Machine, Digitech Vocalist Live Pro. Roland Boss Chorus Ensemble CE-1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana. Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richwhite9 Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 The article is much too simple. The great divergence was Rap and the divergence is between musicians and DJs and dance audiences. Musicians don't play rap. They don't got to school to play rap. They play Reggae, Jazz, Gospel, Blues, Country, Funk, and Folk and just about anything but rap. What's more the classic canon for those genres are based on pre-1982 recordings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanker. Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 The article is much too simple. The great divergence was Rap and the divergence is between musicians and DJs and dance audiences. Musicians don't play rap. They don't got to school to play rap. They play Reggae, Jazz, Gospel, Blues, Country, Funk, and Folk and just about anything but rap. What's more the classic canon for those genres are based on pre-1982 recordings. I've played hip-hop gigs. Guess I'm not a musician... A ROMpler is just a polyphonic turntable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richwhite9 Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 I'll let you know the next time I see the local music schools like HARTT have a rap/hip hop night for their jazz heavy instructed students to stretch their chops. Martin Medeski Woods type of experimentation? Hip hop and samples and collage as backing tracks? Another story entirely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana. Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Musicians don't play rap. Robert Glasper should be informed of this immediately because he often plays with Mos Def. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonysounds Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 I hope Im pointing out the obvious: this is just an Onion-wanna-be story, written by an Onion-wanna-be writer. Right? I mean, a website titled Stuff White People Like???? Really?!!! Hitting "Play" does NOT constitute live performance. -Me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Alfredson Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 You guys are taking it way too seriously. It's funny. It's also silly. If you can't laugh at yourself... Keep it greazy! B3tles - Soul Jazz THEO - Prog Rock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Klopmeyer Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Musicians don't play rap. Oh man, guess I'm not a musician anymore. Damn. I'll let Dr. Dre know he's not one either. And for some reason, they put ?uestlove of the Roots on the cover of a drumming magazine recently... he's obviously not a musician! Thanks for the clarification, Rich & White Guy. Marketing Communications for MI/Pro Audio My solo music and stuff They Stole My Crayon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mate stubb Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 ten foot pole. touching not. Moe --- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marino Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 I don't think that article is trying to be funny. It has a damn serious tone to my ears. And while some of its historic bases are true, it's so full of cliches and stereotyped thinking to result idiotic. Jazz, whisky and fireplaces? Yeah, sure. And the French stink, Scots are stingy, Italians are noisy, and the Dutch are, um, strange. How many cliches can you stuff into one paragraph? Stupidity can kill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real MC Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Disco was white people trying to play funk. Rock-n-roll was white people trying to play rhythm-n-blues. Pop music was white people trying to play soul. I'm white and I'm always tracing back genres. It always end at a music style that was not started by white people. I take a color blind approach. I look for the feel, not the skin color. Thus endeth the self-deprecating soapbox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ITGITC Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent." - Victor Hugo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frogmonkey Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 That's racism. Clever, entertaining, hilarious racism :lol: Perfectly acceptable in a post-Southpark world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botch Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Disco was white people trying to play funk. Rock-n-roll was white people trying to play rhythm-n-blues. Pop music was white people trying to play soul. So is rap black people trying to do poetry? Whups, there's the phone, gotta go! Botch In Wine there is Wisdom In Beer there is Freedom In Water there is bacteria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcgoo Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 So is rap black people trying to do poetry? Whups, there's the phone, gotta go! 'glad I wasn't drinking a beer when I read that. I woulda sprayed the monitor for sure. Custom Music, Audio Post Production, Location Audio www.gmma.biz https://www.facebook.com/gmmamusic/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffLearman Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 As a white guy in a soul band, I endorse that article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Benhamou Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 I've played hip-hop gigs. Guess I'm not a musician... Me too! Also, most of my studio session work has been for hip-hop artists. Ian Benhamou Keyboards/Guitar/Vocals [url:https://www.facebook.com/OfficialTheMusicalBox/]The Musical Box[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richwhite9 Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Is it time for the always inappropriate riffing of black stereotypes on "I Wanna Be Black" by Lou Reed? "Don't want to be a fucked up middle class college student no more....I wanna be black, have natural rhythm and shoot 10 feet of jizm like Malcolm X and curse the Jews and Kennedy too" [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kUVk2Otrnw As someone pointed out the article is almost wanna be Onion stuff and smells like 30 year old parody of white musicians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanker. Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Disco was white people trying to play funk. Rock-n-roll was white people trying to play rhythm-n-blues. Pop music was white people trying to play soul.Dude, you packed more completely wrong information in those three sentence than I can possibly begin to approach.... A ROMpler is just a polyphonic turntable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SK Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 OK, edited to address the post below. Satire is great... especially if it's funny. CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/stevekessler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S_Gould Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 Note to self: Avoid rhetorical devices like satire and irony when posting on KC; they seem to fly under, or maybe over, the radar... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonysounds Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 Subtlety is lost unless you're swinging for the fence. Hitting "Play" does NOT constitute live performance. -Me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zephonic Posted July 28, 2010 Author Share Posted July 28, 2010 Whoa, I just thought it was funny, and I recognized [ahem] bits of myself in there. I figure it should not be taken too seriously. local: Korg Nautilus 73 | Yamaha MODX8 away: GigPerformer home: Kawai RX-2 | Korg D1 | Roland Fantom X7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ITGITC Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 ... Yup. I already said this. But it bearz repeating. http://www.oneinchpunch.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/karate-bears.jpg bearz... Aha "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent." - Victor Hugo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Beaumont Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 I'm white and I'm always tracing back genres. It always end at a music style that was not started by white people. Try tracing: Bluegrass Polka Classical Music Klezmer Celtic Country & Western Folk Opera Chinese Opera Han (Chinese Folk) Oh you mean your white and trace back American genres! Every ethnic group has its own original music. Blacks have contributed to American music, because they are American and contributed to its culture! That's why we are a 'melting pot'! Boards: Kurzweil SP-6, Roland FA-08, VR-09, DeepMind 12 Modules: Korg Radias, Roland D-05, Bk7-m & Sonic Cell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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