My daughter, I am pleased to say, has largely given up on rap and hip hop and is turning it in for Stephen Sondheim. She's a drama major at the Chicago Academy for the Arts, and has spent the last week listening to Into The Woods over and over agin. She's studying No One Is Alone for her voice classes.
I know that I sound like my parents did about my music, but nonetheless, I confess, I mainly listen to what they listened to growing up, with a healthy leaven of Dylan, the Blues, and the like.
Yours in primitive reaction,
Ellington and Sinatra forever
jks
--- dredmond at efn.org wrote:
> Quoting joanna bujes <jbujes at covad.net>:
>
> > Huh? Hip hop includes Hendrix and Marley?
>
> My argument would run like this: Hendrix pioneered
> many of the basic features
> of studio production, reverb, multitrack recording,
> etc. Bob Marley's classic
> mid-1970s reggae invented the hip hop dub/bass, sort
> of hip hop's musical
> endoskeleton. Two other pieces of the puzzle: the
> Velvet Underground/Sex
> Pistols, who extended the studio innovations of
> Hendrix and added some lyric
> inventions of their own, and of course the
> magnificent heritage of 1960s jazz
> modernism. Coltrane's last recordings hover on the
> very boundaries of hip hop.
>
> -- DRR
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