Have you noticed that in most of the biographies of 1960s musicians, the writers poke fun and marginalise the contribution of South Asian (and indeed, all non-Anglo-Saxon, with the exception of African American, which, since it basically IS rock music they are unable to deny; furhermore, they like to be 'black-up' since it's deemed hip) music in the construction of rock music? For example, the concept of the heavy metal solo is based on a sitar run and came straight from psychedelia. Psychedelic bands sprang up in various parts of the world and some of these musicians played exciting stuff and still play music, but these parts of the world are not taken seriously by the white, Euro-centric (in fact 'Transatlantic' would be more accurate) rock writers, the majority of whom tend to the right-wing. And there's much more. This is partly becasue many of the writers are 1980s people and therefore are mentally hobbled and partially blinded by cynicism and the cultural effects of Reagan-Thatcher economic and military dominance - something which is now falling apart. In the case of some of the British ones, it's because they associate a certain idea of the monopoly of rock with the last vestiges of the British Empire. And it's partly because they like to hide an essential racism behind their cynicism. To my knowledge, no-one has ever written about this. Well, here you are - there's a PhD thesis in here for someone!!
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