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Posted on 12/05/2025 1:30:32 PM PST by WhiteHatBobby0701
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True.
My thoughts exactly.
What would happen if a black musician were excluded from a white barbershop quartet or a country-western band on the grounds of cultural appropriation?
What are the songs Whites are forbidden to sing?
LOL. That was the funniest movie ever made, and sadly it could not be done in today's environment.
I’m too lazy to look up better sources but the AI summary seems to capture it:
A cappella refers to music performed by a singer or a group without instrumental accompaniment, using only the human voice to create melodies, harmonies, and rhythms.
The term originates from Italian, meaning “in the style of the chapel,” and was initially used to describe sacred choral music performed in a chapel or small worship space without instruments.
It has since evolved to encompass both religious and secular music.
The style began to develop in Europe around the 9th century with the practice of organum and reached its peak between the 14th and 16th centuries, particularly through composers of the Franco-Flemish school such as Guillaume Du Fay, Johannes Ockeghem, and Josquin des Prez.
The music of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, especially his works for the Sistine Chapel, is considered a hallmark of a cappella polyphony in the late 16th century.
Although early a cappella polyphonies were sometimes doubled by instruments like organs or wind instruments, the term now generally denotes unaccompanied vocal performance.
A cappella music includes various forms such as Gregorian chanting, madrigals, barbershop music, collegiate a cappella, and puirt à beul.
It has a long tradition in religious contexts, including the Eastern Orthodox, Eastern Lutheran, and Eastern Catholic Churches, where liturgical music is exclusively sung without instruments.
In some Protestant traditions, such as certain Holiness Churches, a cappella worship was maintained until the mid-20th century.
It's a liberal college, so...
Mammy
Camptown Races
Pickaninny Heaven
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
You get the picture.
There is cultural appropriation going on they just haven’t figured out the nature of it.
Dixie is on the no sing list. Mybe Rocky Top too.
Dixie is on the no sing list. Mybe Rocky Top too.
Especially Rocky Top!
Is it any white guys singing ending flourishes like this Keye and Peele sketch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EtalOOS-eM
I mean *nobody* should sing Rocky Top.
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