Published in CST Online
Author Andrew Pixley

The online edition of the Cambridge Dictionary [i] states that ‘cultural appropriation’ is ‘the act of taking or using things from a culture that is not your own, especially without showing that you understand or respect this culture’. And – quite possibly – there’s a lot more of that going on in the way of watching television than there ever used to be. As I think I mentioned before, I’m rather fond of jazz (even if nobody’s ever really