hello, thank you everybody for replying.
What I am looking for is maybe not only in heavy metal music, but also in other genres of music. I am concious of the fact that a genre is not about skincolor! Even though YES, Africans have less contributed in classical music (suits, violines, opera, serious business) than whites and hiphop (sic!) primarely is or was a voice of the kids in the ghettos, the blacks, a mood, a movement, a feeling, an expression of reawaking selfconciousness and identity as a racial minority that has been supressed by the (sic!) white christian majority and that gains back strength and vitality!
That does not mean that I am not concious of exceptions eg. Skunk anansie, or Jimi Hendrix or white hiphop artists like, (not a big hiphop expert) Beastie Boys .... or the fact that there is cross over music too.
For me it seems like coming up from age (identification via rockmusic or music is especially important during teenage...) and finding one's role in this world as an adult is a very different business for any white (trash) white christian middleclass majority member than for any kid from immigrants, from colonialized descent, from slaved descent, from indiginous descent.
By the way, english is not my mothertongue, just if you wonder about that I am german speaking mothertongue -
So... well, it looks to me that the Punk movement, also the Rock genre has a lot to do with a rebellion against the mainstream and the class that holds the power! Of corse, not any white ass is a rich person with influence on politics etc. BUT still, compared to other parts in this world, we in the 1.world (US, western Europe) are stinking rich! Everybody here is, compared to the kiddos in the favelas and the slums and the big cities of the 3. world. The 1.world doesn't have slums (worst city in first world probably is L.A that might have slum like ghettos...)
SO my question is about SELFCONCIOUSNESS of this white descent as one of the religious and racial majority (I think the majority of people is white, and the majority of world religion is christian) and also the richest, AND we all know history ... the story of colonialism and how white man came across when he met indiginous men.
THIS WAS VIOLENT.
Like - I am wondering and looking for lyrics and bands that point that sort of topics out.
Like not just like the punks, ( I am not really talking here about the straight edge of punk) that often just endet up with statements, that they are trash and therefore were rebelling by being total misfits to the machine of the majority - just not cooperating. Ending up in a subculture, but remain drunk and in a way weak by acting selfdestructingly.
Anyone has ideas? Thanks everybody.
I am looking for thoughtful (or angry or sad or ironic) songs about whiteys role AND GUILT.
For me, examples of such statements are - hmm thinking by one self
- Dead Kennedys (Holiday in Cambodia - Kill the poor)
- Bob Seeger (Oh freedom)
- Rolling Stones (Sweet black Angel)
- Rage against the machine
- U2 Bono
- Michael Stipe
...
well...
help me to find songs of freedom and of love! Songs about activism
Ani diFranco has some songs too
Sinead o'Connor has Songs against war
The Star Spangled Banner (J.Hendrix)
and see, I was wondering about critical Music as the above in the genre of heavy metal (a genre I am not so familiar with as I said! Like critical Songs by Megadeath or Sepultura or or or ... I am here to learn from you.. . thank you for any suggestion
Rolling Stones: Street fighting man and Prodigal Son, Salt of the Earth
TheKinks: dedicated follower of fashion
Blowing in the Wind - Bob Dylan
Eminem: Without me (Lines: Take black music to get wealthy)
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(Black/colonialized perspective on the subject: Tons of Bob Marley - Buffalo Soldier "Stolen from Africa")
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