{"id":1246,"date":"2008-04-11T09:28:40","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T08:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2008-04-11T09:28:40","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T08:28:40","slug":"i-was-just-another-artist-that-they-were-mad-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/i-was-just-another-artist-that-they-were-mad-at\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I was just another artist that they were mad at!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/music.guardian.co.uk\/urban\/story\/0,,2272398,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Play that funky music, white boy<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Once reviled, &#8216;white reggae&#8217; is now taking off all over the world &#8211; even in Jamaica. But is it any more than a pale imitation of the real thing? Dave Stelfox investigates.<\/p>\n<p>Great piece, of course. Good to see the Guardian employing someone who actually knows something about the music and its context for a change. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=979\">Remember this?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did a rough &#8220;best of 07&#8221; reggae mix a while back and was surprised by the huge amount of material by white people and women on there. A few years ago that would have been unthinkable.<\/p>\n<p>If there is any justice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dubvendor.co.uk\/roots-20-c.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Alborosie <\/a>will be huge in 2008 and this can only be a good thing for the artists he&#8217;s collaborated with and for the wider reggae community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play that funky music, white boy Once reviled, &#8216;white reggae&#8217; is now taking off all over the world &#8211; even in Jamaica. But is it any more than a pale imitation of the real thing? Dave Stelfox investigates. Great piece, of course. Good to see the Guardian employing someone who actually knows something about the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/i-was-just-another-artist-that-they-were-mad-at\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;&#8220;I was just another artist that they were mad at!&#8221;&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reggae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}