Comments on: Do we have to call it "Black" rock?

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By: Baratunde Thurston

Baratunde Thurston — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:38:23 +0000

very very well said

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:25:56 +0000

Hello all! I’m against the term “Black Rock’ for a few reasons:

1) If the person playing the music is black, then that should halt the need for it to be called black rock.

2) If the music is good, then people will listen and understand the style of music even more. Sometimes a catalyst is needed to set the spark.

3) There should be a new tag line developed to encompass the term black rock.

Just my thoughts.

By: Raquel Wilson

Raquel Wilson — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:27:30 +0000

Although, I think you made a great argument for why we should preference our music with “Black” (or “Afro”), but I still can’t see the value of not just referring to it as music.

I think giving music such divisive labels continues to put us in a box. Instead of opening us up to genres not widely considered part of our culture, we end up being even more exclusive.

By: supermondo

supermondo — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:51:16 +0000

I came across this post through The Root piece about Lil’ Wayne (great piece, btw).

But I’m a little confused – if Black Rock is “about the underdeveloped and…unexplored, possibilities of our imagination, our creativity and our identity”, where does Lenny Kravitz fit in all this?

Is Mr. Kravitz the exception to the rule, or one of the very few “black rockers” that managed to transcend it?

By: PurpleZoe

PurpleZoe — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:11:16 +0000

Agreed.
We do have to call it Black Rock. At least until the mainstream acknowledges that the true roots of rock sprouted from the African-American experience, and the inflated support of criminalized and boxed in stereotypes in the Black community are relieved of their hot-air.

This is a necessary article.

Thankyou for shining the light
-PZ

By: andre

andre — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:13:20 +0000

I’m not all about labels, honestly. If someone says, ‘oh this is a black rock band’. I’m like , ‘Well, they play rock and their a band’. It should be normal that their are people that happen to be black , and they play rock. I know where you are going with this, but I dont know if it will end the way you want it to end. EIther way, its your choice. My choice is just to get as many cool bands off your site, and listen to them,not worrying if they are black or white.

By: Garrett

Garrett — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:17:51 +0000

…Labels are both limiting and useful. The most important thing is the art or experience being referred to; and that it be complexly, fully, sensitively appreciated; and that it be described as accurately and as richly as possible…The work of the Beatles and Rolling Stones, of U2 and REM, of Nirvana and Pearl Jam, of Radiohead and Bright Eyes, does not survive because it is called rock. It survives because it is different and good and the people who love it celebrate it and describe it enthusiastically and well…

By: Rob Fields

Rob Fields — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:23:20 +0000

Diana, thanks for your comment. You’re absolutely right. And, in both cases, what’s required is bravery. Black rock is the invitation to be that.

http://www.boldaslove.us/2007/02/what_is_black_r.html

By: Rob Fields

Rob Fields — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:16:52 +0000

Thanks, Onome. Part of that equation, too, is that now many of us have the time, inclination and wherewithal to build on those Black innovations. It’s something that has come–and will continue–with greater parity in society.