"It wouldn't have been very hard for Buruma to turn up examples of contemporary American resistance culture... David Rovics, Utah Phillips, Holley Anderson,... Ani Difranco ... Fugazi? Against Me? Thievery Corporation? .. the Drunken Immortals out of Arizona.." (chucko)
buruma hardly did a good job, but all the names mentioned above, including the very popular difranco, have combined record sales which are a tiny fraction of any of those mentioned in buruma's piece...
there is a difference between personal favorites, and what translates into market clout and vast social impact...can you seriously think these good folks are in the same category as dylan or the stones, or have anywhere , even remotely, their social impact or influence?
fs
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