On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 01:21:02 PDT, "jan carowan" <jancarowan@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>For Orwell this is an offense. They should be miserable! They have no
>>right to be happy just because the bourgeoisie have fed them the
>>lotus of nylon stockings! Follow this road to its end, and you arrive
>>at Sweezy's denunciation of rock and roll as music that would be
>>unfit for a socialist society,
>
>Mr DeLong's train of thought may be crystal clear to the rest of you here, 
>but frankly I have little idea what he is getting at. Rock n' roll is unfit 
>or already beneath this society as it represents a a dilution of the 
>haunting, beautiful, and rebellious blues music of say Muddy Waters. Mr 
>DeLong may not be aware that this country has a profound race problem that 
>has meant the swallowing up of its own greatest musical traditions.

ditto for jazz (fusion).  who needs words to express emotion???

ac









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