This actually reminds me that last year I observed Yom Kippur for the first time in many years, and since I couldn't actually go to a Kol Nidre service (night service for beginning of Yom Kippur with special service/melodies for that night only) I listened to a really good recording of it on Spotify alone. And it struck me what an amazing, harrowing piece of music it is, but I couldn't bring myself to listen to it again on any other time, because I didn't want to disrespect its purpose.
At the same time though, I would have no problem whatsoever with a non-Jewish person (or a Jewish person for that matter) listening to Kol Nidre purely for pleasure/interest, completely stripped of its context. So appropriate away.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 4 September 2015 19:57 (eight years ago) link
rules obtain: appropriation of the velvet underground = good; appropriation of procol harum = bad
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 4 September 2015 20:18 (eight years ago) link
Sund4r- isn't the majority of the thread mostly in agreement with the top post?
http://davidbyrne.com/archive/news/press/articles/I_hate_world_music_1999.php
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 9 June 2016 21:25 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNpUZCXXcAExoEa.jpg
― mark s, Thursday, 2 November 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
I find my self more and more struck and sometimes annoyed at how much american/british pop music there is that leans heavily on trying to sound like soul and R&B music. Like I had always *known* "rock and roll is black music" but I didn't realize when I was younger how much every single fucking white rock/pop singer is imitating black singers.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link
any specific examples here? surely a lot of rock singers, especially contemporary ones, are imitating other rock singers?
― Badgers (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link
Bob Seeger was one who struck me recently. Wasn't thinking so much about contemporary as 60s-80s.
Also, less of a singer thing, but it hit me recently that the Doors rhythm section was trying to sound like Booker T. and the MGs.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:08 (six years ago) link
were they? I always thought Densmore wanted to play bebop and got stuck in a rock band
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 03:53 (six years ago) link
Tom waits embarrasses me to listen to now lol
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 04:14 (six years ago) link
For this reason among others
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 04:15 (six years ago) link
this is a good piece btw https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/09/the-question-of-cultural-appropriation
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link