Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sutton, Matthew

Titel

The Burden of Racial Innocence: British-Invasion Rock Memoirs and the U.S. South

Ist Teil von

• The European journal of life writing, 2022-04, Vol.11, p.21-40

Ort / Verlag

University of Groningen Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Mid-sixties British rock musicians have rationalized their firsthand experience and profitable interactions with American racial segregation by adopting a stance of racial innocence, or a belief that youth and virtue make one immune to charges of complicity with organized structures of racism. This almost childlike subject-positioning disingenuously separates musicians’ expertise on African American blues from a more mature acknowledgement of the oppressive racial conditions that shaped the music, implicitly excluding them from culpability in the continued imbalance of power between black and white musicians.