week9 Are blackness and whiteness useful concepts in the study of popular music?

The terms blackness and whiteness does not tell us anything about the music, which means it does not matter and is not really important. These two concepts may be of use when it comes to the history of the music, as to where it may have come from, but it does not tell us where is going. What these concepts do, is reduces the music down to race, while disregarding everything else in terms of popular music. Another reason as to why blackness and whiteness does not really matter is because with music today you can not distinguish what is black music and what is white music because all the different genres of music are all fused together, which makes it hard to define. Where as compared to the early years of music, there was a clear separation. With popular music today blackness and whiteness, depending on what you mean by it, is not useful when it comes to understanding music as it is not relevant.