White Artists In Black Music: A History | DDD

Personally a big fan of Frank Sinatra, who actually cared about black people. Unlike many other examples of white musicians in black music, he actually fought for civil rights and was openly against racism throughout his life. He had some weird choices in who to support after JFK died though

"This should legitimately count as a hate crime" lol

Just found your channel and immediately subbed after this video! Good stuff, keep up the work <3 As a black woman, I never heard the original of Hound Dog and didn't recognize the artists name.. That made me incredibly sad because I make it a point to know my history and culture. Either way, I know now and will never forget.

The fact that it surprised me to learn that rock n roll is black music when i always imagined the likes of Keith Richards and ZZ Top just bums me out Like, we'd think we'd know more about the original pioneers of certain genres

As a piano player I nearly threw up 😢 when I heard Pat's version of Blueberry Hill. Ooohh it's so revolting to my ears that I had to listen to Fats Domino straight after. I feel much better now 😊

Woah! This guy doesn't have any melanin! Im bumping this right now!

You tricked me into enjoying another video! Dang you!

This phenomenon started earlier too, f.ex. Glenn Miller became a huge swing jazz star, and kinda related Andrew Sisters and Bing Crosby made Calypso songs in the 30's and 40's

I'm not a music guy myself, but I do study art history. Similar phenomena can be seen within modernist art history, such as how many artists such as Picasso drew inspiration by appropriating black/African art, which was called "primitivism". Even today people will also try making a living off copying indigenous art, or even more egregiously (as seen in my own community) people such as white wood carvers and painters will fake their indigenous status to paint art resembling indigenous art. Last year my wife did work for the city cataloging public artworks around the city, and we were stumped by how many white artists got away with being "pretendians" and making knock-off indigenous art. A couple years ago a white woman (of the Island hippy variety) that I used to be acquainted with was heavily criticized for painting a very large mural of a truck using indigenous iconography during the Truck "Protests" in Toronto. She claimed indigenous heritage to avoid criticism, but she couldn't even identify what band she was from, and subsequently no band around our territory has acknowledged that she belonged to their groups, and the indigenous people I do know absolutely HATE the mural. A lot of people want to speak up, but are afraid to do so because: A. The obfuscation of her race made people reluctant to speak about the issue out of fear of being called racist. B. She has the backing of wing-nuts who harass anyone who even negatively speaks about the mural. This is made further complicated that this mural was never sanctioned by the city, however the city also refuses to do anything about it, let alone acknowledge the issue. To me this present a pretty serious ethics issue given what the Truck Convoy protests represented at the time, and the real harm they caused to local residents and economically. Ironically there is a section at the bottom of the mural that is there to written on for "free speech", but it constantly gets painted over by the artist and her affiliates. I wonder why? Those are just small examples, but this can also expand into topics relating to street art and graffiti as well. I guess what you can take away from this is that cultural appropriation can be used water down existing cultures, and even worse, be used for profit and political purposes.

I can’t believe you only have 9 thousand subs, your video format and topics remind of channels that have more following. I hope that one day more people will see your creations. Best of luck from Croatia (i dont even know if you know where that is lol) and you gained a sub :))

wow, that original hound dog by the african american woman was so much better! the elvis version was watered down cheese

that miku hoodie is peak fashion

Bro i need any other extra credit vids. This one was fantastic!

You have great background music

Nice video!

Would you say weezer’s cover of stand by me on 2016s teal album is racist too?

Hey, thanks for another great video. Also, I have a kind of an off-topic question. I'm writing an article right now about capitalism and why it's consequences are already catastrophic on humanity. I've started writing it for myself just to materialize things that were on my mind for too long, but now I'm even thinking of releasing it somewhere. But I have one problem right now: because of how many examples ive provided are of american capital, like Pinochet's regime in Chili or thousands dying from lack of medication and wars in Middle East, it could come off more as anti-american than anticapitalist. Do you have any materials on non-american capital being a massively destructive force? (And yeah, the article is kinda intended towards centrists, those who think "hey, it is's not too bad so we dont have to change anything", and because of that it has to provide examples as visceral as wars, fascist regimes and people dying because they were deprived of basic rights, otherwise it won't hit hard enough to really change someone's mind).

3:22 Love the Kendrick reference lol

"Or better yet, don't..." Yea I was too young to hear that sing when I found it on my mums old laptop 😅 trauma

First time I ever heard of Pat Boone.