Re: [microsound] [OT] hiphop article

["pelagius pelagius" <pela_gius@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From: "Dominic Lanzone" <dubvurt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>ok. so.
>black people are a minority in the US. for an album to go gold or platinum
>here, get video airplay ect, it's has to appeal to NONblacks. therefore,
>what sells and what you see has more to do with NONblacks fantasies of what
>black life is.

That's a good summary of the corporate media's attitude toward black 
culture.  African American-made music, films and tv shows couldn't possibly 
make money right?  Something's only a "hit" if it crosses-over to white 
america.  There's a word I'd like to use in reference to this sort of 
thinking but I'll hold myself back here.

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