one big exception is Jack Hamilton's recent book, which puts Christgau's comments in context of other racist sneers at Hendrix.
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Christgau also sneered at Nina Simone for being "bogus," which isn't outright racist...
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but in context of a penchant for sitting in judgement on black people's authenticity, it's a little gross.
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re this thread from yesterday; I wrote abt how white critics often attack black singers for lack of authenticity ; http://www.trackrecord.net/features/articles/how-folk-music-became-white-music-and-how-rhiannon-giddens-is-taking-it-back/4555 …
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it's one of the defining critical moves of popular music, I think.
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I've been thinking about the 5th dimension recently and how they're supposed to be ersatz fluff crap bec
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they took Motown and added more baroque ambition and instrumention...
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but the Beatles did the same thing and are geniuses.
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why? because white people elaborating on black source material for white audience are heroes...
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but black people using white and black sources for white and black audiences are inauthentic sell outs.
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Isn't La La Land the movie version of this
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