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What complete and utter claptrap. All musical and art forms are enriched when various cultures take things from one another and put their own spin on them. That's how Turkish designs morphed into Art Nouveau. The Beatles were neither black nor Texan, but they blended influences ranging from old blues singers to Buddy Holly to create a whole new sound. Apparently, whining leftist music critics like this and call it "multi-culturism" when it's practiced by performers they like, and condemn it as "cultural appropriation" when it's done by performers they don't like.

I went to North Texas State, one of the premiere music schools in the country, in the late '70s, and most of my friends were music majors. I remember how they always used to ridicule Rolling Stone music critics because they said you could tell they knew nothing at all about music. They reviewed albums based on the trendiness of the band's image or how leftwing their lyrics were, but they couldn't even describe anything musical in accurate terminology. They were, in short, ignorant, arrogant, self-absorbed wankers. Sounds like this guy would fit right in.

call it "multi-culturism" when it's practiced by performers they like, and condemn it as "cultural appropriation" when it's done by performers they don't like.

Exactly. Reminds me of something a nice Jewish boy named David Lee Roth once said: The reason music critics like Elvis Costello is because they look like Elvis Costello.