Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “Reclaiming Country Music’s Imaginary Black Roots,” on the recent push, everywhere from the Super Bowl to the White House, to “reclaim” country music as a black invention. (more…)
Tag: blacks in country music
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Music superstar Beyoncé Knowles — who has sold over 200 million records, won more Grammy Awards than anyone in history, and recently became the first black woman to score a #1 single on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, all while politicking for Black Lives Matter, the Black Panthers, and all things black — is actually a mixed-race mudpuppy descended from a white slaveowner. (more…)
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Back in the mid-1990s when Tiger Woods took the golf world by storm and the American press was enraptured with the Earth-shifting progress that having a splash of melanin on the putting green signified, I can’t recall hearing a single black person joyously exclaiming, “Lawdy me and Land o’ Goshen, it’s about goddamned time a brother won the Masters!”
I never knew blacks to care much for golfing. (more…)