Two sides of the argument about whether Bowie's playing
One side says that he's letting the musicians do all of the work and using them as a kind of authenticity prop and he, the white guy, is getting the credit while he does something that isn't really authentic - and that would be a bad thing.
The other side says that Bowie is playing that music because he loved that music so much that he had to do his own thing with it with people that were as into it as him - as Greg Tate said " On Young Americans, you hear a white rock star who didn't want to be read as a mere tourist in Blackonia but as a contributor, a collaborator, and ultimately a real comrade." and "Bowie remains that rarity — a white rock artist whose appropriations of black kulcha never felt like a rip-off but more like a sharing of radical and bumptious ideations between like-minded freaks."
What do you think about Bowie specifically and about this sort of thing generally?
Are there other examples that you can think of that fall on either side of the equation - the bad or the good?
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