Mike Hirsch
On 1/26/06, joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
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> >
> >
> >Woj writes:
> >My beef is not really with the genre itself, some of which seems
> >interesting, especially when it fuses with reggae, but with how it is
> being
> >used in this country's culture: a silly regression to adolescence that
> seem
> >to dominated the US pop culture and use music (not just rap, but rock in
> >general) for its in-your-face shock value - as an obnoxious noise and an
> >expression of male aggression rather than an art form.
> >
> This regression to adolescence only appears as a regression relative to
> other eras. In fact, the mindset of the adolescent captures the
> capitalist gestalt perfectly and represents its highest goals: you want
> what you want when you want it, never mind the cost, and fuck everybody.
> No sense of responsibility to anything except gratifying the
> instinctual or conditioned impulse of the moment. This is veiwed as
> "freedom."
>
> Pathetic and dangerous.
>
> Joanna
>
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