Excellent analysis, that unfortunately will be ignored...

Pearls before swine. I spent at least a minute typing it up!

Hell, I spend a minute fixing my typos!

I use spillchecker fir thot.

Every semester, I ask my college students if they know why they make M&M's in peanuts and also just plain. Most do not know the answer. Buy, the answer is simple. Some consumers like peanut M&M's; others like them plain. I prefer the peanut M&M's; I never buy the plain M&M's. But, I do not fault the makes of M&M's.

The same goes for music. Some people like rap; others do not. If you don't like rap, turn the music off or change channels. But, don't fault the station. They are merely appealing to the broadest audience possible.

Let’s not forget the outstanding reggae music from the likes of Peter Tosh, Bob Marley, and Jimmy Cliff. I wish they would play some of that at the town squares instead of the friggin disco crap. Plus, it would be interesting to see the line dancers syncing up with some good reggae : )

I C!:bigbow:

Woah!
 

Where’d that come from?

Does anyone know an oldtimer who sits for 2 hours with his water for lemon and cheese sandwich?

Keep reading about all of them but have never met one.

I am not finding the afternoon music very good of late. Sometimes I have to check to see if I am on the right channel. It gets better after 6PM. The typical slanted MSM news at the top of the hour is even more distasteful any time of day.

While you make some good points, I think the difference between those black artists and today's rap/hip-hop is in the perception of the "type" of music. When Hendrix/Aretha/Otis/Marvin et. al. recorded their great songs, it wasn't considered "black music" - just rock-n-roll performed by black artists.

Whereas today, in a certain demographic's minds especially, rap is considered black music. As I mentioned, there are some very talented rap poets/prophets/artists that are recording how life is still very lopsided against minorities and equal rights have not been achieved for minorities. Which is the same subject that strongly triggers those who become militant - against teaching actual/real history.

Once again - you are wrong.


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And along with what I've mentioned, Harvard has just taken a big step in acknowledging actual/real history. Good for them.

Or do what we do subscribe to sirius/xm with tons of choices.

Once again, you are wrong...

Out of the artists mentioned above, only Hendrix was considered a "Rock Act".

The others were R&B, Motown Artists... Some called it "Soul Music"... It was definitely considered "Black Music" at the time (which in my opinion was not a slur, but to many, it was...)