Skin color in songs & singers' names

Subject: RE: Skin color in songs & singers' names
From: Wolfgang
Date: 25 Apr 06 - 12:57 PM

Skin colour in singers' names: A fairly well known (to those liking carnival songs) German singer had the name Ernst Neger (Ernest Negro).

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Skin color in songs & singers' names
From: Jack Campin
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 04:14 PM

There is an Argentinian tango from the 1920s, "El Tatuaje" (The Tattooed Man) which is sung from the viewpoint of a (presumably coffee-coloured) woman who is erotically fascinated by the tattooed white skin of her lover, a Northern European sailor (German? Norwegian?). It turns the usual Anglo-American stereotypes of interracial sex upside down.

Subject: RE: Skin color in songs & singers' names
From: mg
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 09:53 PM

Did we say Old Black Joe?
Burns song about returning soldier...as pale as any lily..art thou my ain dear Willie..
My mental scanner is not doing too well..I shall have to think some more...

Any Metis songs relating to skin color? mg

Subject: RE: Skin color in songs & singers' names
From: Azizi
Date: 01 Oct 11 - 12:39 PM

I just added a post to my pancocojams blog that expands on several of my comments on this thread. That blog post also features a video (with photo) of Tampa Red, and two videos by Nina Simone which were posted for their message & aesthetic pleasure and otherwise have nothing to do with skin color in songs and singers names. In addition, a comment to that blog post featured an excerpt of an online article by a geneticist who explains that the occurance of red hair among Black people is often the result of albinism.

That blog post, entitled Black On Black Taunting - "Burnt Rice" , can be visited by clicking: http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2011/10/black-on-black-taunting-burnt-rice.html

Thanks!

Azizi Powell

Subject: RE: Skin color in songs & singers' names
From: MorwenEdhelwen1
Date: 01 Oct 11 - 10:59 PM

Azizi, I read your blog post and it reminded of the fact that Quasimodo, the titular "Hunchback of Notre Dame" has red hair and pale skin. Although he is a Romany, is it possible that his red hair was because of albinism?

Subject: RE: Skin color in songs & singers' names
From: MorwenEdhelwen1
Date: 02 Oct 11 - 01:16 AM

Refresh.

Subject: RE: Skin color in songs & singers' names
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Oct 11 - 11:26 AM

It's my understanding that albinos always have white hair, absent all pigment.

SRS

Subject: RE: Skin color in songs & singers' names
From: MorwenEdhelwen1
Date: 02 Oct 11 - 05:55 PM

Yes but Azizi's blog post includes an article from a geneticist which states that albinism in people of Black African descent can cause red hair, and thst there is a form of albinism called rufous albinism which causes red hair.