Which was, why, tongue-in-cheekily, I wrote what I did: playing off Dwayne's comment recently about how we can't seem to help ourselves and insist on some utter standard of beauty, taste, coolness, whatever - even those of us who reject those concepts end up going euuuuew, you like Hootie?
You're a sociologist, and no doubt you know just as well as I do why we do this. It's about solidarity - sociologically speaking, not the same thing as leftish solidarity.
shag
> My sense of Shag's post and query wasn't that she was lookin' for
> lefty
> tunes... The Internationale?! Really? Was it Flipper who wrote "We Can
> Kill
> The Landlord Man, Yes We Can?" and does Rage count or are the
> Minutemen, or
> MDC or NWA way better? Were the MC5 revolutionaries or wankers and
> what
> about P-Funk? Can we do early Uncle Tupelo (in a Utah P vein, mixed
> with the
> Minutemen?), or are the Waco Brothers way better'n the boys from
> Belleville,
> IL? What about lefty latin folk/pop? How'd you characterize Manu Chao?
> Would Green on Red count? Can I count the radical teen angst
> identified by
> The Replacements' Let it Be as left?
> I thought S-hag was shoving in (some of our) our face(s) her deep lack
> of
> musical coolth (remember all the parentheticals?) and then wonderin'
> what'd
> happen if she sought suggestions for stuff w/ greater coolosity.
> A
>
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 1:55 AM, martin <mschiller at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> A leftist might want some john hartford - maybe 'big rock candy
>> mountain'.
>> Another 'over the rainbow' that I liked as well as norah's was jerry
>> lee
>> lewis' from The Oxford American Southern Sampler 1999. There might
>> want to
>> be some Utah Phillips in the leftist's library. Cajun and bluegrass.
>> Gospel.
>> Pigfoot and a beer@!
>>
>> I expected more from the topic. But the Family Guy rerun that I
>> watched
>> tonite contained a parody of 'late Beethoven' and I do fall for
>> those
>> coincidents.
>>
>>
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