If it weren't for white entertainers appropriating black culture, there would be no pop/rock music and all you dumb-ass hipsters would be stuck listening to Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett and their spawn.
@ Steve R: Fuck the notion that entire genres of music or an entire culture participated in by whites are per se inauthentic just because it borrows and builds on culture created by another skin color.
As long as they aren't claiming they created what they are doing from whole cloth (as no artist would ever do), I don't give a shit where art's origins lie. The notion that white participation somehow hijacks and truncates another's culture is fucking ridiculous.
Also, do you really maintain that Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra's music weren't influenced by jazz, among a bunch of other things?
@Steve R: Not to mention the fact that black slaves learned their musical traditions from listening to the white plantation owners singing on their verandas. It's a fact.
As long as they aren't claiming they created what they are doing from whole cloth (as no artist would ever do), I don't give a shit where art's origins lie. The notion that white participation somehow hijacks and truncates another's culture is fucking ridiculous.
Also, do you really maintain that Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra's music weren't influenced by jazz, among a bunch of other things?
(totally fucking kidding)
(Lady boner.)
In retrospect, that WAS a bit of a freakout.