{"id":1960,"date":"2009-01-23T09:32:17","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T14:32:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-01-23T12:41:17","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T12:41:17","slug":"last-man-standing-songs-incorporating-ab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-songs-incorporating-ab\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: Songs Incorporating “Aboriginal” Touches, Whether Sincere, Silly, or Both"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m not sure we’ll get too far before there’s a last man standing, but you’ve surprised me in the past. By “aboriginal” touches<\/em> I’m referring to overdubs or musical themes that are direct references to a country’s “native” culture. The “native” culture does not necessarily need to be in any way connected to the culture of the artist. I’ll start with a probably sincere-yet-silly example, a rock song centered around Native American-style chanting: Redbone, “Come and Get Your Love”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I’m not sure we’ll get too far before there’s a last man standing, but you’ve surprised me in the past. By “aboriginal” touches I’m referring to overdubs or musical themes that are direct references to a country’s “native” culture. The “native” culture does not necessarily need to be in any way connected to the culture […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}