Like this book was written in 2004. C'mon.
Reading The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to American Folk Music. They are informative but they keep referring to Black people as "blacks"
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This also is way too positive about Minstrelsy. He acknowledged that they were about racial stereotypes but he goes on to say how...
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I get the impression that the author thought he was giving Black, Latinx, and Native ppl their due here, and he does focus on them but...
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...the language used is definitely couched in some deep seated ignorance and racism.
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@jbu3 yeah I am disappointed, I was looking forward to reading this for a long time too. It is informative wrt musicians and styles -
@jbu3 as well as the general history of folk music and its origins but like...just because you centre Black people in this doesn't mean... - Show replies
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