The document explores the topic of cultural appropriation in music and how it can affect marginalized groups. It provides definitions of cultural appropriation, including how it can trivialize historical oppression and prioritize the feelings of privileged people over justice. Examples are given of cultural appropriation and a game is presented to discuss whether certain cases are appropriation or not, with the document concluding by mentioning a lecture that discusses this topic.

1. THEME 3
IDENTITY
POLITICS

2. AIM
To explore the idea of cultural appropriation and how this
affects musicians.
1. Definition
2. Examples
3. Game
4. Some sort of conclusion

3. CULTURE
Culture is ‘that complex whole which includes knowledge,
belief, arts, morals, law, customs, and any other capabilities
and habits acquired by man as a member of society’
(Arnold in Reith lecture)
‘Culture isn’t a box to check on the questionnaire of
humanity, it is a process you join; a life lived with others’
(Reith lecture)

4. 1. DEFINITION PART 1
Privilege
Power
Context
Representation
Cultural Objects
Respect
Exchange
Assimilation

5. 1. DEFINITION PART 2
1. ‘It Trivializes Violent Historical Oppression
2. It Lets People Show Love for the Culture, But Remain Prejudiced
Against Its People
3. It Makes Things ‘Cool’ for White People – But ‘Too Ethnic’ for
People of Color
4. It Lets Privileged People Profit from Oppressed People’s Labor
5. It Lets Some People Get Rewarded for Things the Creators Never
Got Credit For
6. It Spreads Mass Lies About Marginalized Cultures
7. It Perpetuates Racist Stereotypes
8. White People Can Freely Do What People of Color Were Actively
Punished for Doing
9. It Prioritizes the Feelings of Privileged People Over Justice for
Marginalized People’
http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/06/cultural-appropriation-wrong/

6. 1. DEFINITION PART 3
Big Narstie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERKKp3HJJe4

7. 2. EXAMPLES

8. 2. EXAMPLES

9. 2. EXAMPLES

10. GAME
Cultural Appropriation or Cultural No-propriation?
1. Mike Tyson
2. Honey G
3. Katy Perry

11. SOME SORT OF CONCLUSION
Reith Lecture on Culture – Kwame Anthony Appiah
31:06 – Question from the audience about cultural
appropriation.