{"id":1200,"date":"2022-03-14T23:04:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T04:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2022-03-14T23:04:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T04:04:06","slug":"can-music-from-other-cultures-be-fully-respected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/2022\/03\/14\/can-music-from-other-cultures-be-fully-respected\/","title":{"rendered":"Can music from other cultures be fully respected?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>I think that Parisians were excited about African American artists because of how different they were from previous music, but I don\u2019t think that they had respect for it because of how intentionally or unintentionally racist they were about it.\u00a0<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>One example of a racist way to approach African Art is illustrated by Picasso. The way Picasso talked about walking into the wrong exhibit with African art is horrendous. The feeling of &#8220;disgust&#8221; <a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote1sym\" name=\"sdfootnote1anc\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a> he felt and how he said it smelt and began to call it a flee market. Although he felt a keen interest in the African culture after this event, the way it all came about is extremely racist, with intent.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kcstudio.org\/wp-content\/webpc-passthru.php?src=https:\/\/kcstudio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/picasso4.jpg&amp;nocache=1\" alt=\"A Fresh Look at Picasso and the Art That Inspired Him \u2013 KC STUDIO\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">example of art that inspired Picasso<\/p>\n<p><b>Rene Bizet, from<\/b><b><i> Le Jazz and French Culture Identity<\/i><\/b><b>, said that jazz was inappropriate for French music and very un-French.\u00a0<\/b><b>The <\/b><b><i>negres <\/i><\/b><b>were anything but pure, he thought the <\/b><b><i>danse sauvage <\/i><\/b><b>was \u201csad\u201d as it came directly from whites \u201cbeing allowed to fantasize.\u201d\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cThese blacks, who are grotesque caricatures, have rhythm not only in their legs, but in their skin, which shudders from their heels to the roots of their hair. They sing with a very sure sense of harmony, making us think that they remember their native forest.\u201d <a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote1sym\" name=\"sdfootnote2anc\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>His description lends to kinesthetic music being related to racial physiognomy, an idea that can come across as racist.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;You can Call me Al&#8221; by Paul Simon is not my favorite song but is definitely a popular song known to many. Unknown to many is the culture behind it and how the song came to be.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al (Official Video)\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uq-gYOrU8bA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>In my World Music class last semester, this song was brought up with cultural appropriation, a very similar theme to what is being discussed.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Whether you call it &#8216;borrowing,&#8217; &#8216;paying homage to,&#8217; &#8216;riffing on&#8217; or &#8216;stealing,&#8217; white artists had been incorporating traditionally black music into their work for most of the 20th century.&#8221;\u00a0 <a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote1sym\" name=\"sdfootnote3anc\"><sup>3<\/sup><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Yes the usage of this music incorporated\u00a0into white composers brought attention to this music and genre, as it did for jazz too, it wouldn&#8217;t have been as popular without the white man which is frustrating to many.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>One key instrument that was used in South Africa and Paul Simon&#8217;s song was the pennywhistle. Being able to incorporate this into music is similar to Milhaud using new rhythms and keys to demonstrate the type of jazz inspired by African Americans and Brazilians.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>I personally believe that the intent is sometimes good, more with Paul Simon than French composers, but I still feel that it is appropriating their culture and maybe can dangerously get to the point of fetishizing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote1sym\" name=\"sdfootnote1anc\"><sup>1 Gendron, Bernard,\u00a0<\/sup><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0BxQzWOgr8AurSWlIdjhWeGtOaDA\/view?usp=sharing&amp;resourcekey=0-nDR3KfkJCPTUHNFEXIYp5Q\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNegrophilia,\u201d in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002) pg 105<\/span><\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote1sym\" name=\"sdfootnote2anc\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0BxQzWOgr8AurZVlpckFCZmVZZ28\/view?usp=sharing&amp;resourcekey=0-b83KdBbSbRcLcPIJbDUPyA\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Jordan, Matthew,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Le Jazz: Jazz and French Cultural Identity <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Urbana-Champagne: University of Illinois Press, 2010), 105-106.<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote1sym\" name=\"sdfootnote1anc\"><sup>3<\/sup><\/a> Runtagh, Jordan. &#8220;Paul Simon&#8217;s &#8216;Graceland&#8217;: 10 things you didn&#8217;t know&#8221;.\u00a0<em>Rolling Stone.\u00a0<\/em>August 25, 2016.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that Parisians were excited about African American artists because of how different they were from previous music, but I don\u2019t think that they had respect for it because of how intentionally or unintentionally racist they were about it.\u00a0\u00a0 One example of a racist way to approach African Art is illustrated by Picasso. 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