--- woo <woostern@uclink4.berkeley.edu> wrote:
quoted 10 lines think of all
>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.
>
Many successful businesses have been founded by the appropriation of
resources from the disadvantaged, whether racially or economically.
After all, that's one of the main foundations of capitalism. So it's no
surprise when it happens in the music business.
Whether it is Led Zeppelin stealing songs from dead blues musicians or
swing bands like Glenn Miller presenting Jazz with an acceptable white
face, it makes no difference. There is a very thin line between being a
successful entrepreneur and being a criminal, demonstrated by the large
numbers of businesman who discover themselves in gaol/jail.
Sure the history of 20th Century music is dominated by the rape of
Black music by the white middle classes, but it's no different, in
theory (though, obviously, not in numbers of lives lost) from the
subjegation and despoilation of different cultures by the British
Empire in the 19th Century.
Anyway, so er...what was the point I was trying to make? Ah yes, to
paraphrase a recently deceased UK prime minister - Moby - the
unacceptable face of Capitaism.
Matt.
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