Who invented the mobo awards

Kudos to all those that continue to fight for its existence and mainstream broadcasters like ITV that understand that the black music pound and audience demographic is not to be ignored. Follow us. Terms Privacy Policy. Part of HuffPost Entertainment. All rights reserved. Lion-maned beauty Ella Eyre sang for us and proved why she's a worthy nominee this year.

Suggest a correction. What's Hot. More In Entertainment. How was it like for most black people, in this country about this recognition? If MOBO would specify black musical invention that occurred at specific locations, maybe the growth of rap and hip-hop in poverty ridden black populated urban areas in the USA , It would maybe have more validity.

Today , Hip-Hop and other music forms are made in other world locations too! Most critically, a black origin music award begs its opposite — a white award —an impossibility in contemporary Europe, except for white supremacists.

Further, what exactly do the generalising words black or white people mean anyway? They seem to gain meaning only in the context of a Europe and America for several centuries prejudiced towards people of a darker complexion.

Perhaps what we really need is to re-evalue our understandings of music, beyond black and white? Share this: Flattr. Pirate Stations in London.

But when you have Kelly Rowland making the kind of music she makes with David Guetta, is that still music of black origin? It's not a colour issue, it's just a sound issue. If you're celebrating JLS as music of black origin … apart from them being black, why is that?

Or Professor Green, fair enough: he's a rapper who just happens to be white. Black British music is doing better than ever before, but via artists such as Jessie J and Chipmunk. The hits that have made "black music" the definitive pop sound of our era isn't actually black or white, but post-racial, in the blandest way imaginable. Now that it crosses over so much with the charts, just what is the point of the Mobos — is it a celebration of colour-blind, already successful pop music?

Or just the Brit awards in a baseball cap? More than ever before in the UK, black music is pop music is black music.

And the more the Mobos remit dovetails with the pop charts and the Brit awards, the more they're going to have to face questions about what exactly they are for. Mobos: what is 'music of black origin' in ?