Guardian Opinion Piece: "Why Radiohead are the Blackest white band of our times"
I found this opinion piece interesting and wanted to share! Before you assume this to be some white people bullshit like I did initially, It’s written by Daphne A Brooks; a black professor of African American Studies, Theatre Studies, American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/oct/02/why-radiohead-are-the-blackest-white-band-of-our-times
re: Guardian Opinion Piece: "Why Radiohead are the Blackest white band of our times"
@mawr I don't have time to read the article right now, sadly. But just knowing it exists fills me with a deep desire to find an alternate universe where "Pyramid Song" was originally written and performed by, say, Sun Ra.
Or as a collab with an unusually long-lived Miles Davis. That part right after the first break where it starts turning into dark jazz anyhow.
I can _almost_ hear it in my own head and I wish I could share it.
re: Guardian Opinion Piece: "Why Radiohead are the Blackest white band of our times"
@zebratron2084
You might want to give this one a read when you have time!
"There are abundant think pieces and academic theses on Radiohead’s fluent conversations with jazz: the band’s guitarist Jonny Greenwood has cited Miles Davis’s fusion classic Bitches Brew as an important blueprint for OK Computer, and Mingus has had a continuing impact on their work, for instance on Pyramid Song from 2001’s Amnesiac."
re: Guardian Opinion Piece: "Why Radiohead are the Blackest white band of our times"
@zebratron2084 You're super welcome!!