Woodstock Question

[JJIII]

Originally Posted by HarmanKardon

This is very very astonishing. I thought Woodstock was about music. I never discriminated between white and black music. I loved black music when I was ten listenting to Dad's Satchmo vinyl and I loved black music watching Mother's Finest live on TV when I was 13. I DID NOT NOTICE that the musicians of Mother's Finest were black, apart from the bass player, I was fascinated by the groove of that great funk rock band.

This is very confusing. Young black people with a crappy barrier in their brain. They had just to close their eyes listening to Joe Cocker's black music.

JJIII what about the uniting reconciling character of music? I can understand that young black and white people in the late sixties liked to be amongst each other but a music festival - isn't that an exceptional event?????

Finnbow what you say about this Delta fest is astonishing as well...

I guess you would have to have grown up here in the U.S.A. to understand just how separated the races were and are still. In some ways things are better but we have leaders, both black and white, that gain monetarily from stirring up as much hatred as they can.

[HarmanKardon]

JJIII Is that so? Oh my - what a pity. I confess that I am obviously too far away to register the current sad significance of American Apartheid.

Ike Bana just try to understand that it is the point of view of a European.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by HarmanKardon

JJIII Is that so? Oh my - what a pity. I confess that I am obviously too far away to register the current sad significance of American Apartheid.

Ike Bana just try to understand that it is the point of view of a European.

The United States is far more multi-cultural than Germany, HK. Of the many cultures here, many like to retain their cultural heritage when it comes to music, food, dress, etc. Accordingly, many blacks simply don't like rock & roll and many whites don't like rap/hip-hop.

Consider your own home country, HK. There are over 4 million Turks there, representing over 5% of the population. Go to a concert that appeals to German youth and you won't see Turks in that percentage. I went to bunches of rock & roll concerts in Germany and don't think I saw a single Turk.

[bobabode]

As Finnbow put it, it was simply different tastes in music Chris. There was no "Peace, Love and racism". In fact, the idea is ludicrous.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by finnbow

The United States is far more multi-cultural than Germany, HK. Of the many cultures here, many like to retain their cultural heritage when it comes to music, food, dress, etc. Accordingly, many blacks simply don't like rock & roll and many whites don't like rap/hip-hop.

Consider your own home country, HK. There are over 4 million Turks there, representing over 5% of the population. Go to a concert that appeals to German youth and you won't see Turks in that percentage. I went to bunches of rock & roll concerts in Germany and don't think I saw a single Turk.

As a rule, the simplest explanation is often the most insightful.

Chas

[noonereal]

Music has cultural roots. Experiences and perspectives are shared and advanced through music. The music of Woodstock was a calling to middle class kids.

Most middle class kids were not black in the 60's.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by HarmanKardon

JJIII Is that so? Oh my - what a pity. I confess that I am obviously too far away to register the current sad significance of American Apartheid.

Ike Bana just try to understand that it is the point of view of a European.

HarmanKardon...love, peace and racism? If that's one European's point of view of the Woodstock Music and Art Festival of 1969, then what I understand is that one European's point of view of the Woodstock Music and Art Festival of 1969 is dead wrong.

[MrPots]

Originally Posted by JJIII

I guess you would have to have grown up here in the U.S.A. to understand just how separated the races were and are still. In some ways things are better but we have leaders, both black and white, that gain monetarily from stirring up as much hatred as they can.

Indeed, just two years prior interracial marriage was still illegal in 17 states.