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Gary_Vigoda t1_j1pwmg7 wrote
Reply to comment by danteheehaw in Quentin Tarantino responds to Kanye West saying Django Unchained was his idea by PineBarrens89
Mario Van Peebles started the genre in the early 70s as a serious black film maker but Hollywood appropriated the genre to sell a dumbed down superficial version to white consumers who love all things 'black'.
This song is almost 100 years old.
White American youth were stuck going to church on Sunday, praying nightly, and being told pretty much everything fun is 'sinful'.
Meanwhile, 'black' people were partying, smoking weed, getting drunk, having sex, and making good music.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_record
Race records in the past were made by black artists then appropriated by the music industry who sold it to white kids who loved it and hated their parents, the church, their teachers, etc...
They turned anti-establishment and became rebel Hipsters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(1940s_subculture)
Hollywood has been exploiting black people since Vaudeville & Minstrel shows. This was fairly common knowledge until the early 90s to be honest.
Jonsj t1_j1qhtrj wrote
I still don't understand how you can use appropriation about art and culture inspiring and developing off each other.
All artist, all culture is based on something else, usually inspired or formed by society around the artist. Do you suggest we fine comb all culture and artistic expression, lock it down and then form a committee shutting down anything that can be found anywhere else? We also have to find the earliest expression of that art form and make sure they keep the rights to make anything in that expression and everything else is banned.
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