[lbo-talk] over-the-counter-culture [was: Boom Box Aggression

[dredmond at efn.org]

Quoting Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu>:


> I find it very scary when folks on this list bash
> globalization 

I *like* globalization. Can't get enough of it.


> and in the same breath gloat that the music form concocted
> by the US entertainment industry is taking over countries on distant
> continents, such as Africa and Europe.  

The causality works in the other direction: hip hop relates to the music biz 
very much as open source relates to Microsoft. 

-- DRR