Murray on prole models

[Carl Remick]

>   Well, I suppose someone should pipe up for "vulgar" expression. I mean, 
>what exactly are we talking about here? Rap? Death metal? Kittens in jars? 
>Murray's piece has been written a thousand times before by other cultural 
>reactionaries, from those who railed against ragtime music and early jazz 
>to those who bewailed the "dark" and "violent" influence of film noir in 
>the 1940s to those in Congress who attacked comic books in the 1950s. Every 
>generation sees something vulgar in the culture, and I'm sure in 2035 
>there'll be a form of dress or music that will rattle the elders of that 
>time. Does this mean that there is *no* vulgarity in the current scene? Of 
>course not. There's all manner of crap and trash to choose from. But for 
>Murray to go on about tatoos and nose rings (how very lower class) is 
>really quite ridiculous.
>
>   DP

Ragtime and early jazz strike me as something rooted in individual musical 
talent.  Most contemporary music now seems to me utterly synthetic, mere 
sludge excreted by corporations -- about as transgressive as the Financial 
Accounting Standards Board.

Carl
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