Black nationalist critics ridiculed jazz musicians borrowing from white rock acts

Evidence

Neal deemed the rhythm, the guitar, and most of the singing to be “shitty” while the premise was worse than feeble: “Like, it’s not too cool to get to the Rolling Stones or The Grateful Dead to learn things that your old man can teach you.” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1358

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the reader’s goal of complicating the counterculture narrative — the direction of cultural borrowing was itself a political flashpoint.