“R&B is born due to the loss of the original jazz spirit”

Star lecturer Seol Min-seok, who recently acknowledged and apologized for the distortion of history in the program under his own name, was caught up in controversy over the distortion of music history.

On the 15th, Seol Min-suk introduced jazz as another 20th-century labor song in the industrialized era after the blues in a lecture on “Why is Queen Seondeok in Labor Songs?” posted on his YouTube. In the meantime, Seol Min-seok said, “After Frank Sinatra, white people sing black music. (Black people) lost their original intentions. That’s why the renaissance only for black people has begun,” he said. “Let’s go back, retro, go back to the blues. That’s R&B,” he said.

A jazz expert who watched the video commented, “I’m the first to hear that’Rhythm and Blues was born because jazz lost its originality’. The genre was born in the process of being passed on to him,” he pointed out the error.

In addition, MBC Radio’s’Bae Chul-soo’s Music Camp’ writer Soon-Tak Bae (music critic) posted on his Instagram on the 24th, saying, “The return of jazz is that Rhythm and Blues is completely bullshit.” It is clear that I have never read even a single book on the history of the blues and early rock and roll. This is the same as spreading false information,” he criticized.

“Rhythm and Blues is simply a genre that became’electric’ after the (delta) blues in the southern United States took the Illinois Central Line railroad train to the northern metropolitan area (Chicago, to be precise),” he said. “So it is also called Electric Blues. This is what later became rock and roll.”

Artist Bae added, “I think Seol Min-seok is very excellent when it comes to his field of lectures,” he added.

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