[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

It's not even four months since VE Day, and the most cursory glance over the Radio 2 schedule that day will show you something that is, for all intents and purposes, a "white music" event: Tommy Dorsey, Flanagan & Allen, Glenn Miller, Joe Loss, the Andrews Sisters, Benny Goodman, Vera Lynn, Johnny Mercer, George Formby, Edith Piaf, etc. And that's perfectly natural, because they were the popular artists of the time. For I Have A Dream Day, they seem to be focusing on music that was influential on the civil rights movement in the US, and that was influenced in turn by the movement: gospel songs, Motown, soul, etc. And again, that's pretty natural. I'd hope they'd also give a bit of airtime to some of the white folkies whose songs were popular in civil rights circles - Dylan the obvious one, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Joan Baez, etc - but in all honesty, it's not something I'll be losing sleep over one way or another.