House music= Gay Black Sex

[houseb4titties]

I got this email a few days ago. I'm still not sure how to respond to it, nor am I sure about what the nature is of the person who sent it to me.

THE HOUSE AGENDA

Homophobic Blacks Dance to the Sounds of Gay Sex

by Charles Mudede

When the former president of Zimbabwe, Caanan Banana, was tried and

convicted for sodomy in the late '90s, most Africans believed that his

advanced Western education (he was a learned theologian) induced his

abnormal desires for men. Excessive exposure to Western culture had turned a

once normal African man with a standard sexual appetite into a European

libertine with an appetite for the bizarre gay sex. This is how homosexuality is

represented in Africa's popular imagination: It is the

ultimate sign of white culture, the final product of democratic freedom.

White culture is corrupt, exemplifying nothing less than the fruit of

knowledge that awakens the innocent mind to evil delights, unearthly

pleasures. Too much white knowledge will dislocate the African man from what

Disney's Lion King describes as "the cycle of life." Indeed, while the West has

blamed African promiscuity for AIDS, Africans have always accused

Western decadence for bringing the deadly disease to Africa.

Black America also makes similar connections between white decadence/gay

lifestyle and corruption. In a class I taught many years ago at Seattle

Central Community College, a black student had no problem linking J. Edgar

Hoover's purported homosexuality with the fact that he was, one, white, and

two, morally bankrupt. To find the most hysterical expression of this

attitude (white culture = decadence = homosexuality) in black America, you

only have to read the once popular book Soul on Ice, by Eldridge Cleaver,

which argues that "Negro homosexuals" were "touching their toes" for white

men because their sense of masculinity had been corrupted by white culture.

Whether in Africa or America, for blacks, homosexuality takes the form of

the foreign, the rupture on the border of black culture that initiates the

fall from grace. This perception not only locates black gay men as

dysfunctional or sick (which is what black homophobia shares with white

homophobia), but also as race traitors, sexual Uncle Toms who have

surrendered their black identity to European decadence.

The upshot of this African and black American reading of black homosexuality is

that it imagines black gay sex as only one type of intercourse: a white man

penetrating a black man. Such inflexible and phallocentric attitudes

(penetration = power, penetrated = powerlessness) are not only sexist, as

Michele Wallace points out in Black Macho, but they also make black gay sex

invisible. In black culture, we can't imagine two black men having sex. Such

intercourse is invisible, incommunicable, obliterated by the image of an older

white master exacting pleasure from a prone young black slave.

But despite the obscurity of black gay sex in black culture, the very sound

of it exists on almost every dance floor in Africa. We have been dancing to

black gay sex for over 15 years. House music--with its hypnotic four-four

beats, snappy snare, optimistic high hats, and driven bass loops--was born

in the early '80s in a Chicago club called the Warehouse. Invented by gay

black men to address and articulate their form of pleasure, house music

spread rapidly from the edges of black gay culture into general gay culture,

then general black American culture, and finally into global culture.

What cannot be said in words (black men having sex with each other) is felt

in the moaning black vocals and bacchanalian thumping of house music. The

music is erotic; erotic because it is body music. You "jack your body" to

house music, unlike hiphop, which is head music and designed for "head

nodding." Today, house rules South African popular music. Rejecting hiphop

and its focus on the black male mind, South Africa turned to the black male

body of house music to form the very foundation of its postmillennial jive

music.

But the success of house music has produced an obvious contradiction in

black culture; we dance to black gay sex and yet refuse to recognize it.

There are two ways to resolve this contradiction: One, we deem this music

degenerate--in the way the Nazis called jazz music degenerate in the

1930s--and ban it from all dance floors; or two, Africans give in and utter

the unutterable: Black men have sex with black men because that is part of

black culture. One way will lead us out of the dance club, the other will

keep the party going.

Charles Mudede is a heterosexual and has two kids to prove it.

errr...houseb4dick?

My only question is, house music is black gay sex?

Opinions?? That is the whole article but I will forward the email to you all who might want it.

[strizide]

Originally posted by houseb4titties

errr...houseb4dick?

My only question is, house music is black gay sex?

Opinions?? That is the whole article but I will forward the email to you all who might want it.

I guess thats the "point" he was trying make. Its more of a theory if you ask me. I don't really listen to enough house to say if he actually has a valid point or if I agree... Weird.

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[Kuro]

That's a fucking weird article. AS a black American I don't see "black gay sex as only one type of intercourse: a white man

penetrating a black man". The guy assumes a lot of wacky thinking on the part of black people as a whole which I don't think is true. And even if house music was originally only the music of gay clubs, what does that have to do with anything now? The whole "house music is black gay sex" statement is funny, though.

[houseb4titties]

The only part of it i can find some kind of ground on is the fact that house music was born out of disco out of black and hispanic clubs in Chicago and NY.

Its weird...

[sobeton]

Charles Mudede has a very interesting perspective; on african american culture in general. try reading " hip hop and heidegger" sometime. although I find his writings ,rather interesting. I really think he, needs to ease up on the

kuro > like the picture bro.

[Kuro]

Originally posted by sobeton

kuro > like the picture bro.

Techno is white lesbian sex. I love techno.

[mikeydny]

Originally posted by Kuro

Techno is white lesbian sex. I love techno.

Indeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed

[sheendawg]

That dude is in the fuckin' closet. How else would he know so much about it and its origin? It doesn't matter, anyway. House music IS body music, and there's nothing like being at the club rolling balls all night then coming home and putting in an Erick Morillo CD (heh)! I'm not only speaking for myself when I say that it's plain ole SEX music for everyone. It's an eargasm. An aural massage, complemented by party favors.