[lbo-talk] Too Old for Rap (was Lumpen)

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Sun Jan 29 17:09:07 PST 2006


--- Wojtek Sokolowski <wsokol52 at yahoo.com> wrote:


>
>
> --- Jim Devine <jdevine03 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > on the subject of rap, we should remember
> Sturgeon's
> > Revelation, i.e.,
> > that: "Ninety percent of everything is crud." That
> > is, only about 10
> > percent of any genre is worth it. I think for some
> > genres, it's only
> > 5%. But the point remains that it's a mistake to
> > reject an entire
> > genre based on a cursory study.
>
>
> I do not think that anyone here really suggested it
> -
> I do not want to speak for others, but the point I
> tried to raise was the use of cultural products as a
> form of assault. The fact that a hoodlum in a Ford
> Explorer is blasting this shit all over the
> neighborhood

Plays loud music = hoodlum? plays loud music = "cultural assault?" Do you even read what you write?

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