50albums_poc?

[vass]

We already have a sister community for films, 12films_poc. How about one for music? I know that my musical knowledge is a bit more whitebread than I'd like, and I'd like to expand my range.

Is anyone else interested? Maybe starting next year?

Comments

[sibilance7.livejournal.com]

I'd love that. For the past year, I haven't bought any new music by white men, which turned out to be not such a great idea. I intended it to be an experiment to expand my music collection after I noticed that it was heavy on white male rock, but it's ended up being a more negative thing than a positive thing in the sense that I just say no to most new music I hear instead of saying yes because I'm just not exposed to much music by POC. The experiment has accomplished one good thing - opening my eyes even more to how difficult it is to locate music from POC. I think having a community that focuses on music by POC would be a great thing to help others find music that is different from what's normally played on the radio or otherwise marketed heavily. And it would be great for me personally because I've realized that the flaw of my experiment is that I had no system in place to actually bring different types of music into my collection, which was the entire point.

[papertigers.livejournal.com]

agreed, especially about how hard it is to experience/locate music in various genres by POC. I've been trying to enhance my collection based on memories of music from my high school/college days, which are almost entirely musicians of color, and I'm always open to recommendations.