black/white - its all made on japanese instruments
quoted 1 line as far as the black/white thing in music goes, there's just been such an> as far as the black/white thing in music goes, there's just been such an
enormous amount of borrowing/stealing of ideas, and more recently, direct
samples, across "color lines" that I think it's really off base to get upset
about some white guy using samples of music by a black person. think of all
the hip hop acts that sampled white acts (rock bands, Kraftwerk, etc), think
of the profound influence the white Tin Pan Alley songwriters had on jazz,
etc. etc. It is pointless --and utterly untenable -- to expect musicians to
rely only on musical resources by their racial/economic/whatever peers.
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