I attended two concerst over the weekend. On Friday I saw Aimee Mann at the McCarter Theater in Princeton. Last night I saw Dick Dale, King of Surf Guitar, at the North Star, in Philadlephia. Enjoyed both shows immensely. Indeed theses two artists reflect a certain diversity of tatste, but the diversity I've been pondering is the total racial segregation I observed at these two shows. In fact, I become conscious of it almost every time I go to a show -- occasionally there are soem black people at shows I attend, and certainly you can expect diversity at a jazz show, for example, but the diffusion of music away from a monolithic mainstream has led to some unexpected and (I think) kind of depressing outcomes.
Why am I thnking about this? I guess it's a concern that left to my own homeostasis that I will drift toward segregated entertainment events, or so it would seem. I live 7 miles from the center of a large, racially diverse urban area, I consider myself socailly liberal and realtively open-minded, yet I have isolated myself from a more diverse racial experience. And I think it's not right, but I don't know what to do about it.
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