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Possibly, also I suspect that 'movers and shakers' are hip to multiracial crowds and being a minority, black or white, amongst a large crowd of drug/drink addled 'other' race. i.e, being the only black/white/asian crowd amongst a larger collective of 'other' is not an issue to genuine music/club lovers and scenemakers, but, for the sake of example, white bandwagon jumpers get easily spooked walking into, say, the Aquarium, and finding themselves, suddenly, in a minority.
On that note, plenty of black women found the Aquarium a little overbearing, from the white female crowd present aggressively 'defending' their men-territory! erm......
"Is the segregation thing about size, d'you think, Mu? that when a scene is small/not many people are into it, you don't care who someone is, you're just too excited to discover other people into the same shit as you, whereas as scenes get bigger and more spaces become available for them, a stratification takes places, on grounds, that some venues cost more/are less drug friendly/dress codes become more important..."
Dress codes is definitley an issue...The black clubbing experience has almost always been more about dressing up sharp and being tasty with the moves than, for want of a better catch-all, the 'white' house/trance scene. In fact, from the last time I was clubbing (oohh, going back a bit now) you'd be hard pressed to spot many black clubbers frequenting any but the funkiest, most soulful House events...Masters At Work, stuff like that.
Trance? Forget it! Too much sweat and stomping on the spot!
But late 80's early 90's it was very different, a real cultural mix, gay, straight, everything, all to pretty much the same soundtrack as well, with little of the absurd genre stratification that is now the norm.
I would definitley agree that the black/white UKG difference is very convenient for the media, to keep the topic hot, while elevating it at the same time to Broadsheet Sunday Supp. coverage. |
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