ABSTRACT

Jewish music itself constitutes a distinct form which can be rousing and dance-oriented but it seldom seeps into the mainstream. Work on race in music is dominated by simple bipartite division into black and white music. Black music can be made by white or Hispanic or oriental people and vice versa. Black music often seems to be a shorthand term for the music of the black Afro-American culture and its identity becomes mixed up with political struggles. Direct labour market intervention is sought on day to day musical occupations, a cultural diversity programme to recruit Native American employees at MTV Networks was set up. Free market economies allow people to start specialist labels for ethnic music including those which are purely archival seeking to dig up works from the past from certain territories such as African music. The extreme form of racial segmentation is a musical economy of "islands" that do not trade.