Race and Musical Taste
A black essayist writes in this week’s Time magazine about falling out of love with hip-hop and in love with White Music. His journey is a thought-provoking commentary on the influence of race and other social pressures over what reaches our ears. There is universality in his tale of moving from Public Enemy to Bjork–fears of his friends’ reaction to what he likes, realization of his historical and experiential connectedness to certain music, and understanding that such connections need not exist for him to enjoy music.