We had it in the '60s when George Harrison included a sitar in Norwegian Wood.Īnd then 20 years later, Paul Simon released Graceland, a lush album in which Simon reworked South African songs. In a lot of ways, that's why we keep having this conversation. "You learn to get better by kind of borrowing or adapting or training yourself in the way of the people who came before you." "Your training as an artist is essentially about impersonation, imitation," he said. He says there is a key tension in any conversation about appropriation: First there is an artists' desire to receive credit for their work - whether monetarily or artistically - and then there's the fundamental relationship between art and theft. Greg Tate, a musician who wrote a book about appropriation titled Everything But the Burden, says it's more complicated than that.
"The music business sees Latin America and this kind of music as an inspiration to make more money," he said.
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