I meant that he's getting the audience and visibility that he deserves--through his books, through his thriving X channel, through his appearances at U of Austin and elsewhere, through his prodigious writings in various journals of opinion. I'm praising him for his hard-earned and much-deserved visibility as a well-informed contrarian black intellectual.
Great to hear Adam on here, great musician, and sharp as a tack. Deep blues for the win, all the way . . . Lots to follow up on but will add this briefly:
According to me, or anything close to logic or harmonious thinking might conclude: musicians on instruments that require skill cannot be said to be ELIGIBLE to "culturally appropriate." When I was very publicly slung at in this manner (thanks for this term Connie), it came outta the blue completely, I looked up the term on Wikipedia (this was 2018) and there is no mention of music performance in that article. It's only related because other arts like theater and literature are where this handy-dandy "term" came from -- and even then, in my opinion, terms such as "stealing" or "being an asshole," in the worst cases, or being a "fish out of water" in the mild cases will usually cover the scenario just fine.
Do we want the foundation to be respect, or do we want to make superficial rules about who gets to explore what? I know I'm preaching to the choir here. Keeping things "pure" and still integrating things at the same time will inevitably be tricky and arrive at paradoxes: that's gotta be part of the fun.
Broadly speaking, people's hair-trigger reactionary-ness, their linguistic reductionism and frankly their deep ignorance of spiritual activities leads them to point fingers and scapegoat things they don't have a reference for or don't understand. The taproot of all music and culture is ritualized spirituality and proto-religion --this is not widely understood or even suspected. To sum up: people slinging this term usually have a profound ignorance of what is "culture" and certainly of what, actually and cosmically, is "music."
To me, Adam's life story is the example of how humans actually thrive when they come from respect, integrity and curiosity, and especially great is his entire experience with Mr. Satan and the music they made. Watch the documentary! ;-)
Patient parents with a trombone-playing child!!!
He's got perfect pitch, so it's not too bad. I really like the sound of the instrument.
Neighbor kid had one for band a few years ago. First few months were brutal. Only time in my life I wished I had a valve 'bone to gift him. ;)
How is Wilfred getting his "just deserts" (I assume a bad thing)? I didn't know about it and can't find any news on it.
I meant that he's getting the audience and visibility that he deserves--through his books, through his thriving X channel, through his appearances at U of Austin and elsewhere, through his prodigious writings in various journals of opinion. I'm praising him for his hard-earned and much-deserved visibility as a well-informed contrarian black intellectual.
Interracial relationships do not elevate Black folks in White spaces.
That's a way of thinking about things that will doom you to perpetual resentment and anger.
White pussy (plantation sex) has made my son angrier. He's confused, losing himself.
Alright, you've gone from "dissenting opinion" to "trolling fool." Blocked.
Great to hear Adam on here, great musician, and sharp as a tack. Deep blues for the win, all the way . . . Lots to follow up on but will add this briefly:
According to me, or anything close to logic or harmonious thinking might conclude: musicians on instruments that require skill cannot be said to be ELIGIBLE to "culturally appropriate." When I was very publicly slung at in this manner (thanks for this term Connie), it came outta the blue completely, I looked up the term on Wikipedia (this was 2018) and there is no mention of music performance in that article. It's only related because other arts like theater and literature are where this handy-dandy "term" came from -- and even then, in my opinion, terms such as "stealing" or "being an asshole," in the worst cases, or being a "fish out of water" in the mild cases will usually cover the scenario just fine.
Do we want the foundation to be respect, or do we want to make superficial rules about who gets to explore what? I know I'm preaching to the choir here. Keeping things "pure" and still integrating things at the same time will inevitably be tricky and arrive at paradoxes: that's gotta be part of the fun.
Broadly speaking, people's hair-trigger reactionary-ness, their linguistic reductionism and frankly their deep ignorance of spiritual activities leads them to point fingers and scapegoat things they don't have a reference for or don't understand. The taproot of all music and culture is ritualized spirituality and proto-religion --this is not widely understood or even suspected. To sum up: people slinging this term usually have a profound ignorance of what is "culture" and certainly of what, actually and cosmically, is "music."
To me, Adam's life story is the example of how humans actually thrive when they come from respect, integrity and curiosity, and especially great is his entire experience with Mr. Satan and the music they made. Watch the documentary! ;-)