White music
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"Reggae [...] is a product of the union of West African rhythms and European melody and harmony."--Cut 'n' Mix (1987) by Dick Hebdige, p. 43 "[the term] black music' is much more common than 'white music', probably for the same sort of reasons that expressions like 'women's history' or 'women's music' would cause far fewer eyebrows to be raised than 'men's history' or 'men's music' [...]. Such terms are relative to the hegemony of the culture of their user, so 'men's music' and 'white music' will sound stranger in a culture dominated by white males than 'women's music' or 'black music'." --Philip Tagg "Now with Negro jazz beginning to emigrate from New Orleans, let us examine the white jazz of that city. This music, which is called Dixieland, is an interesting cultural phenomenon. It is the first instance of a sincere adoption by the white man of an Afro-American art and, so far as I am able to estimate, it remains the sole instance."--Shining Trumpets, a History of Jazz (1946) by Rudi Blesh, p. 204 |
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White music is a rarely heard term, coined in back-formation of black music, to denote music of the European diaspora. In a nut shell, 'black music' is characterized by rhythm and 'white music' by melody and harmony.
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