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In reply to the discussion: White hip hop artist under fire [View all]kwassa
(23,340 posts)Cultural appreciation is giving credit to the source you are copying from and emulating. Eminem would be an example.
Cultural appropriation is white majority culture rip-off of minority culture and profiting from said rip-off with crediting the source. Miley Cyrus and her twerking, a black dance style, that shocked some people at an awards show, would be such an example.
Cultural appreciation: the Rolling Stones, early in their career, appeared on a dance show in Chicago, but only if they could also bring on one of their Chicago blues heroes, Howling Wolf, also onto the show for a performance. And that is what happened.
Stylistic things are shared by common culture, more than an individual artist. Many of the performance things that Little Richard did came out of the Southern black experience, often the Southern black churches, where many performers got their start.
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