#SongHistory for tracks on #Butterfly3000 have finally hatched and are free in the world. Another of #StuMackenzie 's more personal albums, he has had much to say about this release; that has been condensed for your reading pleasure here:
#SongHistory
Rounding out the barrage of 2017 releases is #GumbootSoup! In the #SongHistory for each track, you can read as much as we can find out about this quirky collection that is so much more than B-sides from its sister-albums…
Thoughtful essay today by Esau McCaulley, titled "Does the Meaning of a Song Change Depending on Who Wrote It?," in which he wrestles with issues common to American song history: white appropriation through publishing and Black reclamation through performance and reception. It made me think again about how music's multiple modes of existence can both create and complicate meaning.
#culturalappropriation #songhistory #music https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/23/opinion/cultural-appropriation-black-music.html
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