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Thread #132652 Message #3002821
Posted By: Rob Naylor
08-Oct-10 - 05:18 PM
Thread Name: Where the heck is our blues people
Subject: RE: Where the heck is our blues people
Well, I've been doing what I said I'd do on Bobert's thread here:
Bobert's Blues Thread
and doing a lot of listening!
I've got to like Eric Bibb:
Eric Bibb
And Bob Brozman:
Bob Brozman
And I've been amazed at some of the stuff Sister rosetta Tharpe was doing on the guitar way back when:
Rosetta Tharpe, wet railway station, Manchester England, 1964
And this one's just a bit quirky :-) :
Sixteen year old English kid with diddley bow
Azizi, if you're still here, I'm interested that you always use the phrase "people of color" in your posts. I know fashions in "allowable" use of language change, but all the people I know in the UK who are of African or Afro-Caribbean descent refer to themselves as "black" and would feel a bit insulted if someone referred to them as "coloured" or "of colour". Those phrases were in fashion here a couple of decades ago but at some point were deemed to "sound patronising" so the description reverted to "black". Have things come "full circle" again? Is it now normal (again??) in the USA to refer to people of African descent as "of color", and should we therefor expect the phrase to replace "black" in the UK (again) soon?