Negrophilia: A double-edged infatuation
The advocates and defenders of the black jazz avant-garde and the emergent black cultural nationalists had to distance themselves from what they took to be the threat to their project of black freedom—bebop as jazz authenticity, and cultural assimilation as the solution to black cultural subordination.
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
The relationship was further compounded by the fact that, historically, jazz musicians, regardless of skin color, had been seen primarily as entertainers, not artists.
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
It’s no secret: Black culture drives pop culture. It is “the original avant-garde,” as Felipe Luciano, a former TV producer, has said. But I sometimes wonder if appropriation is a prerequisite of Black culture going mainstream.
Jason Parham Culture • The Age of Everything Culture Is Here
Keely Adler and added
Ideas of blackness and criminality were becoming inherently interlinked.
Reni Eddo-Lodge • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller
“According to its proponents, the Long Tail would revitalize our culture by expanding the scope of the arts and giving a boost to visionaries on the fringes of society.”
the Long Tail concept refers to businesses that focus on products and services with almost no customers. The basic idea is that you can make a lot of money selling to these microsco... See more
the Long Tail concept refers to businesses that focus on products and services with almost no customers. The basic idea is that you can make a lot of money selling to these microsco... See more
Ted Gioia • Where Did the Long Tail Go?
Keely Adler added
Do you know what surveys of porn searches show? They show interracial desire is deepest where Jim Crow was strongest. The social order we occupy shapes the erotics of our lives. Shame keeps us from telling the truth about it. We want to say that the institutionalized rape of the plantation was back then, but it reaches so close to the here and now,
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Meanwhile, the fragmentation of culture into the “long tail” has diluted the power of taste to serve as an effective means of social exclusion.
W. David Marx • Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
hatred of distinction or superiority, hatred of the principle of difference and distance between individuals, that is by contrast so prized in those very few beauty-loving cultures.
Bronze Age Pervert • Bronze Age Mindset
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