Fight the power.

Fight the power. Music and Race.
The concept of black and white music is an important one regarding the study of music because often it can convey an idea of the social and cultural area a piece of music has derived from.
Black music and therefore White music are hard concepts to define. Western European classical music perhaps is predominantly white, and jazz and rhythm and blues black but then every derivative of rhythm and blues rock and roll even as far as today’s rock music, which would perhaps be thought of as white music, must it then be thought of as music of black origin?
The ethnicity of music I think is important as it creates a part of the cultural make up of a race, it also enables artists to take aspects of each music to create a hybrid in their own work, the Beatles for example with within you within out. The song relies heavily on Indian music for its feel and is in effect played entirely on Indian instruments, the arrangements however is typical of western music and the song written and performed by Britain’s greatest ever pop band