Ripping Off Black Music Singles Classic edition by Margo Jefferson Politics Social Sciences eBooks
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It is jarring and most distressing to walk into a room one has considered private and find it ringed with cameras, spotlights, and insistent strangers claiming long acquaintance and making plans to move in and redecorate without being invited. Black music and with it the private black self were suddenly grossly public—tossed onstage, dressed in clown white, and bandied about with a gleeful arrogance that just yesterday had chosen to ignore and condescend.
Blacks, it seemed, had lost the battle for mythological ownership of rock, as future events would prove.
Written more than 40 years ago with astonishing prescience, celebrated critic and memoirist Margo Jefferson’s Ripping Off Black Music—her first published essay—is at once unflinchingly honest and dead-on in its critique of appropriation in popular music, from Chuck Berry to Elvis, Jimi Hendrix to the Beatles.
Features an introduction by the author.
Ripping Off Black Music was originally published in Harper’s, January 1973.
Cover design by Adil Dara.
Ripping Off Black Music Singles Classic edition by Margo Jefferson Politics Social Sciences eBooks
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Ripping Off Black Music Singles Classic edition by Margo Jefferson Politics Social Sciences eBooks Reviews
Elvis swung his hips because black people did?
I bet the people of Greece ripped off Africa when they created Democracy.
This was a wonderful, challenging, interesting read. I really appreciate hearing marginalized voices, and this explanation of appropriated culture, etc. is super useful and meaningful for me to read.
Well argued piece that stands the test of time.
I think she sugarcoated a lot of sentiments but everything was correct. And I'm glad that it wasn't a long read.
Interesting perspective, albeit skewed disdain toward as quoted in the book "Clown Faced Whites". It is a good short story that depicts albeit very quickly the influence as stated many "blacks" have had on popular music going back to early 1900's or earlier. The underlying theme is that white musicians recognized the talents of others and capitalized on it and the black musicians were not as financially rewarded. The educational aspect was the long list of the very talented artists black and white. This story reminds me of a lyric that Eminem stated about him being successful copying blacks as Elvis did.
Jefferson makes the argument historically, viscerally, and convincingly as she traces the history of whites appropriating the experience, style and music of blacks from the time of black face minstrels, to the Rolling Stones. History can be seen as repeating itself even now as white artists like Eminem appropriate rap and hip hop, affecting for themselves not only the genre, but the lifestyle and trappings of "thug life" and winning the awards, recording contracts and audience's money and allegiance. From a black perspective, she writes that is like someone coming into your living room, spotlighting it and the parodying yourself to the world and gaining acclaim for the caricature...for a cultural and soul ripping ventriloquism.
A very important document. Margo Jefferson is a vital voice in American literature and criticism. This is a great and valuable read, especially since it was written and published in 1971 in Harper's Magazine. I only wish she had developed the concepts contained in the article into a complete book!
After reading this article, go read more of Margo Jefferson and also Greg Tate, who in certain ways springs directly from this writing (in my opinion).
Most intelligent piece ever written on an often-mined theme.
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