All those artists
were to be found in the 'urban'/'rnb, funk & soul'/disco section of the high street record shop, back when such things existed.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Tue 29 Nov 2022, 16:20,
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Yeh.
Black music has always been categorised as a thing. 'Urban' was always a euphemism for it.
Have a look at the Disco Sucks rallies, see which records were being thrown on the bonfires.
Then consider how segregated American culture was, with certain radio stations refusing to play music by black people.
This is all perfectly obvious. There's a lineage of racism in the music industry. Like lots of other industries.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Tue 29 Nov 2022, 18:25,
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I won't disagree with you that there is definitely racism
going on when it comes to "disco sucks" but it wasn't the only thing going on. I get the impression that in a similar way that punk was a reaction to prog, hip hop was a reaction to disco. There's an excellent video by DMC that goes into it a bit (at about the 4 minute mark) youtu.be/QPRmFJ_U8Ug
On a slightly different note a colleague went to the MOBO awards a few years back and it was such a narrow version of "black" music it was unreal. No jazz, no ska, no blues, no funk, no disco...
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