Music has always been saturated in politics and it continues to be that way.  It seems today music politics surround the idea of corruption within politicians and the government.  It feels like this ideal has been spilled over from Rock and Punk because those genres were very vocal during their times about rebelling against society and the government.  Further in the past feels more like music was saturated with politics but in an unaware way.  Unaware in the sense that music was pushing political corruption instead of rebelling against it.  Cultural appropriation being the political agenda of the times.  Minstrelsy was appropriating by saying that black art forms are okay to enjoy, even though those art forms were twisted and demented to push the agenda that it is okay to enjoy those art forms but not be too closely associated with them.  I mean this as in America found those art forms to be enjoyable but could not be seen to truly enjoy them and say those art forms are okay to enjoy without taking it a bit satirically.  This can be seen in how white people took the music portion but dressed up in ridiculous outfits and face paint to exaggerate black people in how they look and act.  To add to this, Elvis Presley can definitely be seen as appropriating.  It is so absurd to me that he can be seen as one of the greatest musicians of all time when he took black music to use for himself as profit.  This does not seem like too much of a reach to me as he was quoted to say black people are only good for shining his shoes.  That feels very obvious to me that he heard early Blues music and created it to make money off of it.  America was right along with him in this agenda.  Once Elvis started to put out music, Blues blew up as a huge genre with Elvis being the person to make the genre become huge.  America could not enjoy Blues when it was a black art form but when Elvis started releasing music, it was suddenly okay to enjoy and people acted as if he was the first to do such a thing.  Elvis truly exploited the music for personal gain and he was the puppet master of all those who fell into this trap.  All of this may be a blatant assumption but I believe the evidence is there and I think it is plain wrong that he is seen as one of the greatest musicians of all time because of what he has done.  This would be a totally different story if he had adapted the music for his style because he enjoyed the sound and truly wanted to be a part of the genre.  The line between appropriation and enjoyment is a thin one but you have to look at people’s mannerisms and mindsets to determine if that person is appropriating or truly trying to be a piece of a movement, idea or genre.