Drum Circle Banned For Cultural Appropriation
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UC Davis Whole Earth Festival has banned Drum Circles for cultural appropriation. They had to set up outside the WEF this year and this is their response to the ban.
Here's the text from the Sign: "The Davis Drum Circle "Come drum with us and experience what humans have been doing for hundreds of thousands of years! From it's beginning in 1971, The Whole Earth Festival emphasized music, dance, community participation, and counterculture expression—the exact environment where drum circles historically thrived (especially during the late 1960s–1970s revival of communal drumming in the U.S.) From the first event in 1971 up until it was canceled, the drum circle grew and became a well-established, iconic feature—“a drum circle of epic proportions.” Hundreds of people would come and drum, dance, and connect. They even used to have fire dancers. For many of us, it was the highlight of the festival. Due to some people and one organization complaining because they felt the drum circle appropriated their culture, WEF leadership acquiesced and decided to no longer have it as part of their programming. We believe WEF should fight to keep it and that it would be an easy argument. Communal indigenous drumming traditions have been documented in well over 50 countries, and hundreds of distinct Indigenous cultures worldwide. One culture cannot lay claim to humans banging on drums in a circle. We are not culturally appropriating anything. We are culturally APPRECIATING and celebrating all the different cultures that get together in a circle and bang on drums. For us, the drum circle is, and always will be a core, expected part of the festival experience. Come bang on a drum, dance, and make some friends. The Davis Drum Circle Club"
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There is no such thing as
There is no such thing as cultural appropriation. It's a term created by losers with too much time and not enough ideas. It's all bullshit. The truth is some people don't want to share recipes, fashion, recreation or technology. Live your life and embrace and absorb as many cultures as you heart desires. If anyone complains, tell them to eat shit and be sure to use their hands because you know ,.....utensils.. the horror!
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"One culture cannot lay claim
"One culture cannot lay claim to humans banging on drums in a circle. We are not culturally appropriating anything. We are culturally APPRECIATING and celebrating all the different cultures that get together in a circle and bang on drums."
That's the Truth.
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> One culture cannot lay
> One culture cannot lay claim to humans banging on drums in a circle.
This should be pretty obvious, you'd think, but apparently not.
As for UC Davis, and the entire UC system, was it cultural appropriation for them to adopt the model of a university from its origins in Europe about 1000 years ago?
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Seems silly, unless a bunch
Seems silly, unless a bunch of white kids were dressing uo in warpaint and feather headdresses and dancing about to traditional indigenous songs and drumming. And if it wasn't for "cultural appropriation," we would still be swinging from trees.
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nonsense like this fuels anti
nonsense like this fuels anti woke and anti DEI arguments and feeds the MAGA monster. how stupid
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Wouldn't white kids with
Wouldn't white kids with heady dreadlocks count as cultural appropriation?
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I think a metaphor like cross
I think a metaphor like cross-pollination is more apt, and it doesn't carry the political baggage of cultural appropriation.
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I'm a hybrid
I'm a hybrid
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Show me someone who isn't. I
Show me someone who isn't. I'll wait.
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very bad when drums stop
very bad when drums stop
very very bad
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Cultural appropriation is
Cultural appropriation is real like the white rock bands of the 50's that pretended that they invented blues and ripped off songs, but then as with all things it started to get weaponized in order to virtue signal and to keep people off balance. As Marc Maron said we ended up with Trump because we managed to annoy so many people.
I also get that language is powerful and you change language you change the world, but that has to happen organically to be effective not through constant attempts at shaming people with an ever changing rule book of what is and what isn't allowed. So now we live in a world where people at my work still put their pronouns in their email signatures but actual trans people can't serve in the military. That is the definition of winning the battle and losing the war.
Not a huge fan of drum circles or anyone who imposes their sonic preferences into public places but in a world full of annoyances they aren't in the top 100 and if you haven't been to the WEF it is one of the most hippie gatherings there is so drum circles are 100% appropriate there.
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good one Bss!!!
good one Bss!!!
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we sold tofu scramble back in
we sold tofu scramble back in the day and got to see Toots for the 1st time. He was so incredible. Not sure if it was this fest or some other....
have a love/hate relationship with hippie drumz.....
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>>>>have a love/hate
>>>>have a love/hate relationship with hippie drumz.....
Some drum circles are better than others. There is a really good one every Wednesday night in the summer at a bandstand in a park near my house, but I get the sense it's invite only.
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My kid just took a Sudanese
My kid just took a Sudanese Drum Circle class at UC Santa Cruz last quarter. The only thing they grade on is attendance.
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"Wouldn't white kids with
"Wouldn't white kids with heady dreadlocks count as cultural appropriation?"
Negative
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This would make for an
This would make for an interesting scene in Spinal Tap.
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I wonder what they think
I wonder what they think about nursery school kids circled for drumming?
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Julia Child wasn't French.
Julia Child wasn't French.
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best drum circle I ever
best drum circle I ever witnessed was at Dead show
during intermission in Philly at JFK stadium 89 on the back of the floor
they were demolishing the stadium soon after and security let almost anything in including drums
must of been 50 drummers and 1000+ dancers
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Sorry guys -- we gotta put
Sorry guys -- we gotta put the drums away. Turns out they were doing this in Africa way before us. They said we can keep the feather hats, though.
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The good news is that with
The good news is that with drum circles banned, didgeridoo sales have shot through the roof!
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It was really the wook stench
It was really the wook stench, wasn't it?
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The drum circle at Hippie
The drum circle at Hippie Hill dates back to the 1960s. While you might not see any of the original drummers, the action continues weekend after weekend, decade after decade. A dedicated group flocks to Golden Gate Park, hauling wagons with tall wooden drums and cases of Pacifico beer. They show up one by one, unfurl their camping chairs and, from early afternoon through dusk, play the drums.
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/golden-gate-park-ritual-sf-wont-die-20051800.php
https://xpressmagazine.org/21496/all/energy-flows-the-lasting-tradition-of-hippie-hills-drum-circle/