RT @24AheadDotCom: .@hoodedu: see my Garthwaite tweets. Like Townhall's editor, you seem to think that white means bland and none white mea…

.@hoodedu: #country is more based on UK folk music, but extremely crapified. #MusicMonday

.@hoodedu: you may have missed Elvis, LedZep, Stones, etc. but most #RockAndRoll is to varying degrees based on blues and soul. #MusicMonday

.@hoodedu: see my Garthwaite tweets. Like Townhall's editor, you seem to think that white means bland and none white means cool. #vibrant

.@hoodedu: I realize you write for #Salon, but why do you define white-oriented music as bland & black-oriented music as cool? #MusicMonday

@24AheadDotCom (a) I don't define country as bland. (b) the dividing line bet. black and white music is really blurry, as my list suggests.

@24AheadDotCom I think country's perceived whiteness is why it's often seen as bland. But my article is pretty directly abt not accepting

@24AheadDotCom those categories. Also, curious as to why you think rock is black? There are back and white performers, of course, but

@24AheadDotCom it's certainly not very integrated compared to hip hop or jazz or lots of things.

@24AheadDotCom I've written about race and country music at some length in various places. Here, for example: http://t.co/WekhkV9ylC

@24AheadDotCom Oh, Christ, you're an anti-immigration advocate. My apologies for wasting both of our time.

@hoodedu, cont'd: "In fact, country has... been musically omnivorous, gulping down blues, jazz, soul, rock, hip hop". #MusicMonday #teaparty

Per @hoodedu, "Country music is bland, conservative music for aging white fuddy-duddies. Or so its detractors claim." (cont'd) #MusicMonday