The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #138368   Message #3166960
Posted By: MorwenEdhelwen1
08-Jun-11 - 05:02 AM
Thread Name: Singing a song in first person- racial issue
Subject: RE: Singing a song in first person- racial issue
Dave MacKenzie, isn't "Bourgeois Blues" written from the POV of Lead Belly? If you're singing it, that means as GfS says about being the character, you are being Lead Belly for a while. And that means that I'm playing Lord Invader for a while, too, when I'm singing that song (Brown Skin Girl).