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Originally posted by lovelyivy84
I think it is a cultural thing in some sense.
When I was a kid I grew up listening to my Mom's music- which was anything from Mighty Sparrow to The Supremes (my Mom was a Diana Ross FANATIC).
The Beatles were not in her collection. She liked them, she had listened to them when she was young, but it wasn't HER music. I was exposed to them mostly through the school I attended (where everyone and their parents loved them) and in the media.
So I think they are a huge part of mainstream culture, but not part of the cultural landscape for most blacks.
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Many "rock" artists such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones (I love their 1960s and 1970s output) aren't part of our cultural landscape if we pretty much stay within our own communities. But I got thrust out of my own community at an early age, so I was exposed to this type of music, as well as through the media. I was thrust out back in 1971 because I was a mentally gifted minor and my elementary school in a neighborhood of color in Kollyfornia
didn't have MGM/GATE programs back then.