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Originally Posted by Severian
co-opted and appropriated by whites.
stolen by cosmopolitan cultures,
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I dunno. Is it so wrong to say whites simply enjoyed the music? Wanted to play and compose such music? Is this a bad thing? Isn't that actually kind of a beautiful thing, how music transcends race?
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Originally Posted by Severian
Guess how many music majors, of the hundreds I encountered, knew the name Fats Waller? Anyone? Ok, I'll tell you my count: zero.
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This sucks and happens in every artistic field, I've found. Crazy, but some artists don't care about their history.