[lbo-talk] RE: hip hop world wide

[joanna bujes]

The way I see hip hop (and I claim no expertise) -- it's like the 
balladeers in the middle ages -- a kind of universal ongoing collage and 
melding of forms. No other form, so far as I can see, is playing that 
role -- not jazz and not "classical music" by definition. But I think 
one day "classical music" when it looks back on its roots, it will find 
them in  hip hop, tango, and other ethnic dance forms in the same way 
that Bach looks back to the countless, often anonymous composers of 
chaconnes, bourees, gigues...etc.

Joanna