# Blues Festival is rather...white

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blues-festival-is-rather-white/836514>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 4, 2019, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blues-festival-is-rather-white/836514 "2019-07-04T13:06:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blues-festival-is-rather-white/836514/21 "2019-07-06T19:27:25Z")

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I’ve been going to jazz clubs in New York (and Chicago) for close to forty years, and I can probably count the number of black folks I’ve seen in audiences on my fingers and toes.

Surely you’ve come across this piece at some point?

> **[\#116 Black Music that Black People Don’t Listen to Anymore](https://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/11/18/116-black-music-that-black-people-dont-listen-to-anymore/)**
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> All music genres go through a very similar life cycle: birth, growth, mainstream acceptance, decline, and finally obscurity.  With black music, however, the final stage is never reached because whi…

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