Cultural Appropriation in Global Music

Cultural appropriation has been prominent in the music industry for decades now.  Many prominent white musicians have been accused of borrowing aspects of African American culture (AAC) in order to make a profit off what people of colour were once punished for doing (Johnson, 2015). Some of the most celebrated musicians in the industry have...

Global Film – Crazy Rich Asians

Crazy Rich Asians broke down boundaries as the first film to come out of Hollywood in 25 years with an all Asian cast and an Asian-American lead. The film took the world by storm in 2018, upon its release, when it became the highest-grossing romantic comedy in the past decade, making $237 million worldwide at the...