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Publicist confirms that country star dressed as Lil Wayne for a Halloween party as pictures of him in dark makeup emerge\
Tuesday 10 November 2015 14.01 EST Last modified on Tuesday 10 November 2015 14.12 EST
Despite reminders and warnings about the sensitivities around racial and cultural appropriation, Halloween remains the holiday during which white people don dark paint as part of their costumes.
The latest is country music star Jason Aldean. A picture of him wearing blackface surfaced last week, according to the Nashville Gab.
The photo shows Aldean dressed in a wig of long black dreadlocks, a red bandanna, black sunglasses and with brown paint on his face standing with his wife and some friends dressed up for Halloween.
Aldean “dressed as rapper Lil Wayne” for the holiday, a representative for the singer told the Guardian.
Jason Aldean, second from left, dressed as Lil Wayne for Halloween. Photograph: Nashville Gab
From Macon, Georgia, Aldean is hugely popular in the country music world, with 14 No 1s on the country charts to his name and a clutch of awards. He is also a partner in Jay Z’s Tidal streaming service.
Though Aldean rejects the term, he is generally agreed to be part of the “bro-country” movement that has swept the scene over the past few years. The term was coined by the New York Times’s Jody Rosen; the Guardian’s country music critic Grady Smith describes bro-country as “hard-partying tailgate tunes sung by man-children in muscle shirts”.
With its spiritual home in the south – specifically Nashville, Tennessee – the relationship between country music and race has sometimes been a fraught one. For years, many country stars have embraced the the Confederate battle flag, both onstage and in their lyrics. And while they have always been a part of country music, only a small group of black country artists have found mainstream success.
Meanwhile, blackface has a notorious place in American culture, harking back to a time when white Americans would paint their faces and act out racist and offensive stereotypes about African Americans.
However, not all Americans feel that blackface is always unacceptable. According to a poll administered by the Huffington Post and YouGov, 55% of Americans think it is fine for people to wear whatever they want on Halloween, even if others find it offensive
This year, the issue sparked a racially charged debate at Yale University after the university’s intercultural affairs committee sent an email to the students asking them to avoid wearing insensitive costumes.
In response, a faculty member and administrator at a student residence wrote an email on behalf of students living in her residence hall who were frustrated by the official rule.
Tuesday 10 November 2015 14.01 EST Last modified on Tuesday 10 November 2015 14.12 EST
Despite reminders and warnings about the sensitivities around racial and cultural appropriation, Halloween remains the holiday during which white people don dark paint as part of their costumes.
The latest is country music star Jason Aldean. A picture of him wearing blackface surfaced last week, according to the Nashville Gab.
The photo shows Aldean dressed in a wig of long black dreadlocks, a red bandanna, black sunglasses and with brown paint on his face standing with his wife and some friends dressed up for Halloween.
Aldean “dressed as rapper Lil Wayne” for the holiday, a representative for the singer told the Guardian.
Jason Aldean, second from left, dressed as Lil Wayne for Halloween. Photograph: Nashville Gab
From Macon, Georgia, Aldean is hugely popular in the country music world, with 14 No 1s on the country charts to his name and a clutch of awards. He is also a partner in Jay Z’s Tidal streaming service.
Though Aldean rejects the term, he is generally agreed to be part of the “bro-country” movement that has swept the scene over the past few years. The term was coined by the New York Times’s Jody Rosen; the Guardian’s country music critic Grady Smith describes bro-country as “hard-partying tailgate tunes sung by man-children in muscle shirts”.
With its spiritual home in the south – specifically Nashville, Tennessee – the relationship between country music and race has sometimes been a fraught one. For years, many country stars have embraced the the Confederate battle flag, both onstage and in their lyrics. And while they have always been a part of country music, only a small group of black country artists have found mainstream success.
Meanwhile, blackface has a notorious place in American culture, harking back to a time when white Americans would paint their faces and act out racist and offensive stereotypes about African Americans.
However, not all Americans feel that blackface is always unacceptable. According to a poll administered by the Huffington Post and YouGov, 55% of Americans think it is fine for people to wear whatever they want on Halloween, even if others find it offensive
This year, the issue sparked a racially charged debate at Yale University after the university’s intercultural affairs committee sent an email to the students asking them to avoid wearing insensitive costumes.
In response, a faculty member and administrator at a student residence wrote an email on behalf of students living in her residence hall who were frustrated by the official rule.