If you are white, you rock!
If black, it's r'n'b or hip-hop for you.
If brown, reggae.
This is not categorising exclusive to BDO, tho BDO certainly showcases the larger world.
If you are playing the wrong music for your race, you are a freaky oddity - "alternative" (remember Bowie doing Young Americans?).
And where was the brown audience? (I bet there won't be one at any of the Oz gigs either.)
The only brown people I saw at BDO were male and had their backs to the stage - they had solemn or fierce {"staunch")expressions on their faces, and the word "security" emblazoned on their shirts.
What conscious efforts have been made to make BDO a more racially inclusive event?
Not lowering the ticket prices must have some delineating effect on who buys.
Music as a political weapon should be working at breaking down racial/cultural barriers, not fortifying them.
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