Stuff White People Like
After a busy Friday morning delivering three days worth of mail after Christmas and New Year's, the afternoon has slowed down somewhat. As I surfed the net, I remembered a conversation I had with some of my friends at a birthday party about a book called "Stuff White People Like." I googled it and found a blog from where the book came about. I have been reading a number of entries and I'm learning how white I am. One entry was so true of me.
This one comes from #116 - Black Music that Black People Don't Listen to Anymore.
Historically speaking, the music that white people have kept on life support for the longest period of time is Jazz. Thanks largely to public radio, bookstores, and coffee shops, Jazz has carved out a niche in white culture that is not yet ready to be replaced by Indie Rock. But the biggest role that Jazz plays in white culture is in the white fantasy of leisure. All white people believe that they prefer listening to jazz over watching television. This is not true.
If you are good at concealing laughter and contempt, you should ask a white person about “Real Hip Hop.” They will quickly tell you about how they don’t listen to “Commercial Hip Hop” (aka music that black people actually enjoy), and that they much prefer “Classic Hip Hop.”
“I don’t listen to that commercial stuff. I’m more into the Real Hip Hop, you know? KRS One, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, De La Soul, Wu Tang, you know, The Old School.”
I realized that in all the underground hip hop shows I've gone to in the past, more than 80% who attended were white people. I thought this was funny because I wondered in the past why there were so few black people at those shows.
You can find out more about what stuff white people like at stuffwhitepeoplelike.com
Peace.
This one comes from #116 - Black Music that Black People Don't Listen to Anymore.
Historically speaking, the music that white people have kept on life support for the longest period of time is Jazz. Thanks largely to public radio, bookstores, and coffee shops, Jazz has carved out a niche in white culture that is not yet ready to be replaced by Indie Rock. But the biggest role that Jazz plays in white culture is in the white fantasy of leisure. All white people believe that they prefer listening to jazz over watching television. This is not true.
If you are good at concealing laughter and contempt, you should ask a white person about “Real Hip Hop.” They will quickly tell you about how they don’t listen to “Commercial Hip Hop” (aka music that black people actually enjoy), and that they much prefer “Classic Hip Hop.”
“I don’t listen to that commercial stuff. I’m more into the Real Hip Hop, you know? KRS One, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, De La Soul, Wu Tang, you know, The Old School.”
I realized that in all the underground hip hop shows I've gone to in the past, more than 80% who attended were white people. I thought this was funny because I wondered in the past why there were so few black people at those shows.
You can find out more about what stuff white people like at stuffwhitepeoplelike.com
Peace.
posted by Arnold at 3:28 PM
2 Comments:
Haha, 'stuff white people like' ... I didn't know there was such a think as 'white people'. I have this feeling like he's actually writing about people with this light brown, yellowy, peachy, tan, skin tone.
The strange thing is that when I lived in Africa, most 'Black' Africans that I knew really didn't like 'commercial hiphop' from N.America either. They had their own rappers, especially in Tanzania, and people complained about the commercialism of new rap from the U.S. They were 'Black' people that didn't like newer rap at all. Also, the interesting thing is that new rap in N.America sells far more albums in the 'White' communities too.
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