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| From | Joe Field <joe@flyingcolorscomics.com> |
| Subject | Fwd: RRHOF |
| Date | Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:15:43 -0800 |
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From: Joe Field <flycojoe@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: RRHOF
To: audities@smoe.org
I don't purport to be a music historian, by any stretch, but I do think
Elijah Wald has a somewhat myopic view of his subject matter. Sure, it's
daring and controversial to call the Beatles the group that destroyed the
integration of music and the Billboard R&B charts, but that's his thesis to
sell some books. Doesn't make it true or totally accurate.
Yes, the charts were integrated to a large degree by 1963. Some of that had
to do with the backlash against Pat Boone and others that made black music
into their own white hits. Some of it had to do with listeners wanting to go
to the original source of the black-written white hits ---and a lot had to
do with the growing civil rights movement and the integration of American
society in general.
Still, I do stand with my comment that the door opened slightly by Pat Boone
and others who made black songs into pop hits...and then the Beatles totally
demolished that door when they came on the scene, reducing the need for an
R&B chart.
Joe Field
http://flyingcolorscomics.com
What? You got that last bit, the part about the Beatles blending the black
> and white markets, exactly backwards.
>
> http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1906602,00.html
>
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