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February 26, 2012

everythingbutharleyquinn:

racismschool:

Chester Arthur “Howlin’ Wolf” Burnett was one of the most important blues singers, songwriters and musicians, influencing popular rock groups like The Beatles. Unlike many blues artists, Howlin’ Wolf maintained financial success throughout his life, held a stable marriage, and avoided drugs and alcohol.

I feel like… with the way we are socialised to view broken marriages, financial instability and substance abuse, it is really impossible to mention the opposite without implying superiority or greater desirability.

I mean, that final sentence may just be meant as a statement of fact or an important example of how racism and classism intersected to impact on the lives of many blues artists… but, I don’t know.

I feel like people who substance abuse, who do have financial stability are already subjected to so much stigma, so much pity and condescension, I don’t think the opposite should be viewed as something we applaud as being a greater achievement, it just reinforces normative standards of life to the detriment and further marginalisation of those who fall outside of it.

Talent is talent and set apart from the features of an individual’s life. Artists who were not able to maintain steady incomes or long-lasting marriages or avoid drugs created just as sensational and enduring music.

The individual circumstances of their lives can tell us about history - eg the inersection of certain prejudices that therefore helped create certain environments - and instruct us, but… I don’t think they should be so cavalierly thrown together alongside the simple facts of their skills and talent, the musical legacy they left… simply because of how stigmatising an attitude society already has towards drugs and poverty…

Is any of this making sense?

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(Also: Stable relationships, stable finances and total lack of substance abuse have never been a feature of my life)