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Black activist and composer Greg Tate on David Bowie. He says that "David Bowie ranks as high in our electric church’s Afrofuturist pantheon of demiurges as Jimi Hendrix, George Clinton, and Miles Davis. That’s for his outrageous aristocratic style, not-just-skin-deep soul, badass brinksmanship, and all-around Alter-Negrocity. Not to mention the Starman’s own sui generis take on The Funk. 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."

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http://www.mtv.com/news/2727414/brother-from-another-planet/

Date: 2016-01-13 03:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] newlifeinstpaul.livejournal.com
David Bowie was one of the few and first white folks on Soul Train.

Date: 2016-01-13 04:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com
See? THIS? IS AWESOME. An unifying force he was. I wish we wouldn't all miss him so.

Date: 2016-01-13 05:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] st-martin-a.livejournal.com
Interesting quote. Very true.

Date: 2016-01-14 01:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thespian15.livejournal.com
I know it's a compliment, but
Bowie remains that rarity — a white rock artist whose appropriations of black kulcha never felt like a rip-off
Still sounds like a bit of a slap.
Hugs, Jon

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