Why is Anglo-American prog so white?

^I never heard this Israel thing. Do  you have any info?

eldridge wrote: timothy leary wrote: Hey, it is your topic and you can name it whatever you want. I certainly do not side with Eldridge's views but I am old enough to know the more you respond to him the more opportunity he has to deliver his warped message. Sometimes we write words and they are misunderstood. For instance, when i wrote the blues grew up alongside country music I started getting feedback about how people did not like country music. I was not referring to this modern country western drivel which we have today. I should have been more specific, of course they might not like old country music either. Both the blues and old country music came out of poverty. Old country music was the music of sharecroppers and Appalachian hillbillies, not what it has become today in country western music. Eldridge has never learned that "union differentiates".   What have I said that is "warped"? Can someone refute one thing that I've said. All people have done is call me names, "racist", "supremacist". Calling someone names is a graceless way of admitting you have lost the argument.

I haven't "lost" the argument. It's just not one I want to engage in, actually.

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Hey, it is your topic and you can name it whatever you want. I certainly do not side with Eldridge's views but I am old enough to know the more you respond to him the more opportunity he has to deliver his warped message. Sometimes we write words and they are misunderstood. For instance, when i wrote the blues grew up alongside country music I started getting feedback about how people did not like country music. I was not referring to this modern country western drivel which we have today. I should have been more specific, of course they might not like old country music either. Both the blues and old country music came out of poverty. Old country music was the music of sharecroppers and Appalachian hillbillies, not what it has become today in country western music. Eldridge has never learned that "union differentiates".

timothy leary wrote: People should say what they mean. It came as no surprise to me when a racist chimed right in on the thread.

People should say what they mean. It came as no surprise to me when a racist chimed right in on the thread. 

I just wondered why it was Anglo American as opposed to Anglo in general. Americans are not the only 'Anglos" playing prog music.

rogerthat wrote: In the midst of his rambling through tangents, Pedro has done justice to the topic.   In the 60s and 70s, blacks in America had a distinct music culture and one that couldn't be sold effectively to white audiences unless they crossed over.  Jimi Hendrix was not the first blues guitarist by any stretch of imagination but he rocked the blues and thereby became acceptable to listeners who expected to hear a 'white' sound.   For a long time, actually even today, commercial success of black musicians was reflected in the R&B charts, not the Billboard.   A genius like Wonder crossed over because his music absorbed eclectic influences and, even while retaining its black identity, appealed to those outside the community.   It backfired for Minnie Riperton - not R&B enough for blacks and not rock enough for whites, and such.  ...

timothy leary wrote: And to name it Anglo American prog is very narrow to begin with.

 

Frankly I haven't red all the post of this topic, and maybe I am writing nothing new about the topic, but I am living in London, in a multiethnical society; several blacks are among my friends and/or aquaintances, and none of them like prog music, and by the way I dislike most of the black music too. Maybe is just the way that the two ethnic group approach music. I quote in advance that I have totally not clues to how to play an instrument at all, and so I am not fashinated by incredible skills and virtuosism. I think that the way a black compose is basically more focussed on the instruments, and on the contrary a white composer is more focussed on the composition, that have its roots in the idea, in other words, a black works in order to get a song from something he/she got playng with the instruments, while a white, must works on the idea he got on his mind in order to arrange the instruments for the song.

Probably is more a feeling than even an opinion, but is just the feeling I got...