So if Condoleezza Rice performs at a piano recital, she must stick with the likes of Erskine Hawkins, Duke Ellington and Fats Domino. If she plays Beethoven, Debussy or Chopin, she will be guilty of “cultural appropriation.”
When my parents gave my sister a record player for Christmas, they threw in a few albums, including Fats Domino, which introduced me to "I'm a walkin'" , "Strawberry Hill" and some others. Of course this was a little behind the times, parents being parents, but very close, from the perspective of ages.
But what I was thinking of was the movie, "Shake, Rattle, and Rock", starring Mike "Mannix" Connors as a DJ, I think, defending the right of youth ( i.e. white youth ) to listen to "rock and roll" as epitomized by Fats Domino, who appeared in the film with his combo.
In a memorable scene the white youth flock to his performance, while the hidebound, and aged, anti-rock-and-rollers fume in frustration.
Race was not a theme in this movie, only modernity, which in itself represents a sort of naivete, certainly in view of the concerns we see here about "appropriation". But who is being naive?