Concert cancellation for didgeridoo player Tom Fronza due to “cultural appropriation”: In mid-October, Fronza and his music group were actually supposed to perform at the Kiel Bicycle Cinema Combine (“FKK”). However, the organizers canceled this, as the “Kieler Nachrichten” and Fronza themselves report. The reason: Fronza’s use of the didgeridoo was “cultural appropriation”.
Comedian Dieter Nuhr has already taken on the event and used it in a show – to the displeasure of Fronza, who doesn’t particularly like the comedian.
Tom Fronza has “the blessing of the indigenous people” – big statement on Facebook
Fronza then writes several A4-page-long posts about the incident on Facebook. In his first post, the musician describes the allegations as “unfounded” and points out that he has been playing the didgeridoo for almost 30 years and has close ties to various Australian Aboriginal communities.
He differentiates between the traditional use of the instrument and its contemporary application and explains that the word “didgeridoo” is actually a Western term:
“I have been playing this instrument for almost 30 years now and lived mainly in Western Australia for a few years and had a lot to do with Noongar people there. However, I also have a certain connection to the Yolngu in northern Australia. That’s where the instrument has its deepest roots in Australia and is called Yidaki, Gunbork or Gunbarrak Garra, not didgeridoo.”
Read the whole statement here:
“There is cultural bias!” – Tom Fronza clarifies his points of view
In another posting, Fronza makes it clear in a list that he considers the discourse on cultural appropriation to be important and recognizes that there are situations in which the accusation is justified. He also doesn’t want to be used for political agendas, doesn’t see cancel culture as a major threat and considers the angry citizen movement to be an emotion and not a political stance. He also has no grudge against nudism, but sees structural and communicative problems there.
Read the post here:
Anger at Dieter Nuhr
Fronza writes about Nuhr’s use of the topic: “By the way, I think Nuhr is shit, for me it’s a show for angry citizens! And no, at this point I don’t see that the extreme left poses as great a danger as the right. There are obviously extreme leftists who are just as stuck up as extreme rightists, yes! But neither are their numbers that large, nor do they have that much political influence, nor are they on the verge of achieving landslide election results with a completely anti-democratic party.”
Read the post here: