The Assimilation of black culture

[Magiver]

@Beware of Doug

Jazz got typed as too intellectual.
Blues doesn’t have enough to do with modern urban life.
Motown was never edgy enough. Too popular.

And none of them ever pretended to a cultural aristocracy. At least not the kind where you surround yourself with luxuries and settle disputes by force.

You’re flat wrong. Jazz, Blues and Motown were absolutely absorbed into American culture. No, make that World culture.