It is hard to define black and white music, obviously stereotypes can define it for us with black music being R n B and Rap and white music being opera and hillbilly, but how much is it that we agree with this anymore. Stereotypes originate from many years ago so why now do we still use it in our culture. Music is now multi cultural, it has an aim to a much larger target audience. 1950's was the ultimate change to black music with a white audience, artists such as Elvis Presely started writing songs which were largely influenced by black artists. "Pop music has always depended on the interaction between black and white traditions"(Hatch & Milward 1987). Music could now be defined as 'mixed race' white artist make black music such as Eminem a hugely successful rap artists, and black people make white music. Not only that but genre's now mix to make a hybrid genre. It keeps music catchy and fresh. Blackness and whiteness is therefore only useful in describing history of music not our current society.
There are some interesting and relevant points covered here.
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