Popular culture

Brian O. Sheppard bsheppard at bari.iww.org
Sat Jan 11 11:30:34 PST 2003


On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> It is ironic that most creative branches of jazz are not "popular
> music" today. Creative branches of jazz (more so than classical
> music) are _the_ music for intellectuals (like Justin!).

So we should avoid it, then, yes? I'd hate to think I was listening to the sort of music George Kennan or Dean Acheson grooved to.

Not interested in "music for intellectuals,"

Brian

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