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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
Should we begin to question whether this should be only discussed as a part of visual art, or are artforms like music also fair game? Every single song you have heard in person or on the radio contains appropriation and combination of multiple cultures and frames of reference. You have to go back pretty far in music history to find original content.
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That’s a gross oversimplification.
Most American music from rock to country to jazz was looted from black culture..
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/19/88024...ave-narratives
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GROSS: What got you into reading slave narratives and thinking you'd base some songs on them?
GIDDENS: You know, getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African American instrument, you know, just - it totally turned on its head my idea of American music and then, through that, American history, you know, because the music that we do is all a result of the cultural aspects and the historical aspects that are going on.
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It’s the American way, exploit something then call it your own.