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b'Here is a truth that some people find very uncomfortable: rock, alt-rock and indie rock are predominantly white\\u2026why is that?...the answers\\u2014and there is more than one\\u2014are complicated\\u2026there has actually been a quite a lot of study on this question\\u2026\\n\\nPerhaps it\\u2019s because non-white people don\\u2019t choose this music as part of the way they project their identity to the world\\u2026culturally, they just don\\u2019t identify with these forms of music, so they naturally gravitate somewhere else\\u2026\\n\\nOthers ask how this is different from someone choosing the music of their culture and ethnicity over that of another?...if you\\u2019re Italian, for example, the chances are you will have a greater affinity to Italian music than you would, say, gamelan music of bali\\u2026\\n\\nHere\\u2019s another truth: any form of music tends to reflect the shared sentiments of a particular community\\u2026. compare indie attitudes with hip hop\\u2026an indie band wouldn\\u2019t think of singing about drinking Cristal in the back of a Maybach while discussing the size of the diamonds in their new grillz\\u2026. neither would a hip hop artist rhapsodically describe their new pickup...neither would a rock band, for that matter\\u2026\\n\\nEach form of music has its own aesthetics\\u2026if they don\\u2019t mean anything to you on a cultural or emotional or personal level, then you\\u2019re not going to be into that music\\u2026\\n\\nOthers don\\u2019t buy into this, seeing the non-whiteness of rock as a status quo barrier to people of colour who would like to participate but feel excluded, an outsider, unwelcome\\u2026they also see countless microaggressions, covert expressions of racism and continued cultural appropriation\\u2026\\n\\nWe\\u2019re not going to solve any of these issues on this program\\u2026but I would like to acknowledge the contribution people of colour have made to the evolution of alt-rock\\u2026alt-rock is pretty white, yes\\u2014but not always\\u2026\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'