The Bob Dylan appreciation thread

do you want to stand with the music of rich old white men whose career was nothing but cultural appropriation of black forms?

Yes that is one perspective. Another is that some white people loved black music and wanted to make it more famous and indeed offered credit where credit is due to the originators. Dylan was definitely the latter. cf. "Nobody can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell"

(Was Paul Simon's Graceland exploitation or an attempt to bring South African music to the world?)

And Dylan broke the old folksong mould expected of him by going electric and lost may fans. The 'Judas' moment.

You could argue that Subterranean Homesick Blues influenced Hip Hop?
Beastie Boys Mike D on Dylan: "He's one of the first b-boys, if not the first. What more to say?" and in 1986: Kurtis Blow featured Bob Dylan singing the opening of "Street Rock" after Dylan used some of Blow's singers on one of his albums in the 80s

https://youtu.be/xfi7ME_Y5Vs

Art/music can't help but build on what came before and fuse styles and break moulds and Dylan has continually absorbed many styles and moved some on.