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[QUOTE="ShadowSD:1129257"]Well, organic compared to today mass-marketing, I am aware of the history of the blues and how whites weren't supposed to listen to it (and I had a feeling even as I typed that that the wording left me open to that criticism, but I stuck with it because the fact remains that back then marketing didn't encourage people to imitate or mock black people when the blues were taking off, nor was there the mass-marketing ability at that time to even attempt such a thing; we live in a far more commercial and synthetic age now). You make a good point about music being associated African Americans in pop culture, and while I think that's in part true, I can't be so optimistic to believe that it's all that it is. The fact that blacks were slaves and also happen to be the one race that can be openly mocked in public under the guise of pop culture is hardly a coincidence, and not an irony I can ignore as easily as those who do the parodying. You are also correct that hip-hop culture is pervasive and catchy, which is one reason mass industry jumped on it in the early 90's; they knew a catchy rap on a chicken commercial would grab even those few who couldn't sing along with the melody of a jingle, and thus making it common in all commericial media could increase their bottom line. The problem is that banishing melody and notes like some of plague in some corporate boardroom is such a non-musical decision that it's really impossible to defend. Catchy, whatever the genre, does not always equal good, and this is true about all types of music; for a lot of Top 40 stuff over the decades (for instance), plenty of songs were more catchy than they were good, leaving people with songs stuck in their head playing over and over again that they couldn't stand (we've all been there). The military even used that priniciple to torture prisoners with the same song over and over. Of course, that's not to say catchy is always bad either; there's nothing better than a song that's catchy AND good, but catchy does not inherently equal good and often can be negative when the catchy to good ratio gets too high.[/QUOTE]
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