Race and Music

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The crazy mixed up world of racial politics is getting itself involved with music again. Usually the only time you hear people talking about race and music is during the MOBO (Music of Black Origin) awards and I’ve always been a bit doubtful about them. Since the music that is nominated for MOBOs is invariably the product of Asian studio electronics I’ve always felt that they should be called the MOJO awards, which also sounds better. But maybe that’s just being mean-spirited.
Anyway, this plug-in for iTunes is designed to allow people to make sure that they’re listening to a proper racial mix of music. It downloads the racial origins of the tracks in your library from a database and tags them accordingly. You can then create a Smart Playlist that contains your desired racial mix.
Of course, cynics might claim that people could use this software to enforce strict racial purity in the music that they play but that seems unlikely to me. After all, you must have bought all the music in your library so why would you want to filter some of it out? Hmmmm. I wonder if Jade Goody has a copy of this.