As per my discussion about folk music earlier, I think that it is important to note the centering of white ppl in music in general...
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...serves to obscure the extremely important foundations, roots, and just other musicians who are Black, Native, Latinx, Asian, etc.
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How many songs have been stolen by POC by white musicians and bands? Too fucking many.
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I mean when you listen to a lot of folk music, not many people know who wrote the originals. They are listed as "traditional"
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Which is fine I suppose in that they are very old songs and people weren't necessarily keeping track but I gotta wonder
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just how many of these trad songs, made popular by white folks, were actually not white songs.
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