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25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going

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  1. Melody Bot

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    The New York Times’ new interactive feature covers “25 Song That Tell Us Where Music Is Going:”


    A strange thing you learn about American popular music, if you look back far enough, is that for a long time it didn’t much have “genres” — it had ethnicities. Vaudeville acts, for instance, had tunes for just about every major immigrant group: the Italian number, the Yiddish number, the Irish one, the Chinese. Some were sung in a spirit of abuse; others were written or performed by members of those groups themselves. And of course there were the minstrel shows, in which people with mocking, cork-painted faces sang what they pretended were the songs of Southern former slaves. This was how we reckoned with our melting pot: crudely, obliviously, maybe with a nice tune and a beat you could dance to.

     
  2. Frinet42

    Regular Supporter

    I enjoy reading long form articles but holy smokes, that was a book
     
  3. skogsraet

    Trusted Supporter

    I skipped through and just read the segments on artists and songs I carried about tbh :seeno:
     
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