Prog Music - the whitest music, ever!

Oh.. not to mention that Europeans middle-class and upper-middle-class were potential ticket buyers for those Classical concerts from 19th Century onwards........

Edited by Tillerman88 - August 06 2017 at 20:16

When I first became aware of Genesis (1977) - I think that "Contemporary Rock" may have been a label I heard more - I think that "Progressive Rock" cam into mainstream parlance in the eighties - And as somebody has already suggested - European Classical Music has a very similar demographic to the seventies prog-giants of whom the author despises - Punk was powerful live - but I bet the author does not sit down and listen to the "Ramones" - bet he has "Luther Van-dross"  on low in the background while he sits there in his too-tight leather pants..

Edited by M27Barney - August 07 2017 at 00:40

HemispheresOfXanadu wrote: Hendrix

Also Living Colour...who were, as a group, the "Hendrix" of the next generation...still think they should be listed in Prog Archives somewhere...a large percentage of their music is prog as far as I'm concerned but no one here wants to take that one board. 

Complex music is not owned by Caucasians. Let's not forget Miles Davis, John Coltrane, etc who are here on PA. To me they are not prog ...only my opinion...to me it's just complicated jazz.

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A good question n it is based I think on social and popular cultural values. He uses music as his target.

For some obscure reason rock is the only form of music where the better one has to be at it the "worse" one is. It is supposed to be "of the people, for the people, by the people" but the ordinaries are nt going to be playing guitar for Yes, or Keyboards for Genesis. So there is the real progressive bit. It is rock moved out of the reach of the common rabble. And as such is isolated, it is a target for those trying to play social politics.

Prog has little or no image, any thing that says so is almost related to other genres psychedelia, metal, classical art imagery. In pop cultural terms it is now out of reach, and deliberately so by educated middle class white persons leaving the dull witted dunces to the likes of punk etc. And bearing that last in mind, who can blame anyone for a spot of resentment?

With various contemporary political occurrences (you know who I mean and where I mean) the easiest target in the world is the white dude. Add into that mix, the historic oppressed black people from all over the world most of whom, outside of crime behave in a manner (as far as I can see) that is quite the example to the rest of the world. Probably not just me.

So prog is, to coin a phrase, Easy Meat and you don't have to know much beyond a smattering of the top six to find yourself with a couple of thousand words and some filled editorial space, job done, pub to attend, mutual egos to massage and inferiority complexes to compensate.

This attacks music meaninglessly and tells us more about the author than anything. This sort of attack has been around since Hector was a pup and could have been cobbled together from any post 1977 pop scribe digitized blog.

Of course he's also wrong. You could for example tell him that he, as a racist has dismissed so many black Japanese and Latin contributions to prog rock that to erase such artistic endeavours from music is tantamount to cultural genocide and typical of the fascist ravings of the narrow-minded psychotics. You know the type; Intellectually inferior with a platform and a potato sized chip on his shoulder.

Really, the author is quite the ordinary. That label is not an irony like the rest of the above faux stereotype examples, nor is it a compliment.

what's wrong with the "whitest of white music" anyways ?

I'd say hillbilly is the whitest of them all

SteveG wrote: Sean Trane wrote: I'd say hillbilly is the whitest of them all   Next to that is all the classical music. The whitest instrument in bluegrass was invented by Africans: the banjo.

Let me get all conspiracy theory on ya. Perhaps this is a C.I.A. stunt to scare people away from complex music. It's a well known scientific fact that music is the only activity in life that uses all of the brain's functions simultaneously. Being a musician creates a neural network like no other. Since they lost control of the music industry per se, now they are creating articles like this to scare off potential listeners. Or more likely it's just some schmuck who doesn't have a clue what he's talking about 

kenethlevine wrote: um... I think this is the whitest music ever, and it's not even close https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_power_music Nothing in prog rock as a genre is inherently white.  That is, there is no code, written or otherwise, to which the lyrics must conform.  If it so happens that the vast majority of its musicians and listeners are white, it is what it is, and no reason to revile it

And classical fan = white nazi....... the only one that progresses forever!   hahahahah