{"id":149277,"date":"2020-06-22T15:50:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T13:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/06\/22\/rock-against-racism-metals-varied-response-to-black-lives-matter\/"},"modified":"2020-06-22T15:50:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T13:50:53","slug":"rock-against-racism-metals-varied-response-to-black-lives-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=149277","title":{"rendered":"Rock against racism? Metal&#039;s varied response to Black Lives Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Black Sabbath and Axl Rose are among those in the metal world supporting protests, but there\u2019s no denying the opinions of others in the genreThere\u2019s no point denying metal has a more complicated relationship with race than many of its adherents would like to admit, or confront. At its most stark, this is evident in the overt racism that has insinuated itself into black metal over the past 30 years, following the example of the openly racist Varg Vikernes of Mayhem and Burzum. There\u2019s now even a genre identified as \u201cnational socialist black metal\u201d.And there\u2019s the fact of how metal came to be. The founding fathers of metal in the late 60s and early 70s were still playing music derived from the blues (even Black Sabbath began as a blues rock band, and their drummer, Bill Ward, filled their records with jazz-inspired flourishes). Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2020\/jun\/22\/rock-against-racism-metals-varied-response-to-black-lives-matter\" target=\"_blank\">Rock against racism? Metal&#039;s varied response to Black Lives Matter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Sabbath and Axl Rose are among those in the metal world supporting protests, but there\u2019s no denying the opinions of others in the genreThere\u2019s no point denying metal has a more complicated relationship with race than many of its adherents would like to admit, or confront. At its most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}