Formerly of the influential post-rock, avant-jazz group Ui, Sasha Frere Jones has set his pen to paper, dissecting current forms and trends in popular music.
In this particular article Frere Jones brings to the fore, rocks recent negation of its African American roots, focussing on larger than life bands like the Arcade Fire and how this negation has manifested.
Well recommended.
"Why did rock and roll, the most miscegenated popular music ever to have existed, undergo a racial re-sorting in the nineties?"
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2007/10/22/071022crmu_music_frerejones
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I definitely enjoyed the read. I also learnt a new term - miscegenation.