Bob Dylan culturally appropriated the music of rural and Western Americans of Anglo-Saxon descent.
Jewish city-boy tried to sing songs like a cowboy or an Ozark hillbilly.
shareInteresting your not wrong! Im a big fan of appropriation.
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Um, no shit. He’d be the first to admit it
shareThe city being Hibbing, Minnesota, population (2023) 16K.
shareLike rock 'n' roll and blue-eyed soul culturally appropriated the music of those of African-American descent.
Rock's origins are mostly in classical and folk music, neither of which are black culture.
The problem with your logic is that you could also say that blacks "culturally appropriated" music that came before them as well.
Rock is from black music. Blues and gospel roots. Chuck Berry for one. Look at Elvis bio. Everyone knows this. Every rock person’s favorite is Robert Johnson (Dylan was one). The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as perhaps "the first ever rock star.”
“Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the United States …derived most directly from the rhythm and blues music, which itself developed from earlier blues…It was also influenced by gospel, country and western, and traditional folk music.” Wikipedia (Let’s not forget that great classical symphony by Mozart - Shake, Rattle and Roll. Original by Big Joe Turner - culturally appropriated by Bill Haley and the Comets.)
Btw. Dylan loved gospel music. He asked Mavis Staples to marry him in 1963. His second wife was a black backup singer.
Okay, Adolf.
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--Pablo Picasso
So what? He wrote some good songs that they didn't write. All of the songs they were going to write still got written by them anyway. Everybody won.
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