YouTube Club
A recent post on Stuff White People Like addressed the phenomenon of white people getting into black music once blacks were done with it. This has conspicuously occurred with blues, jazz, Motown, and as is argued there, now old-skool rap. But I dispute this, as white interest in rap really reached its peak in the 80's, and general disgust with the current state of rap is so great that not even old-skool rap can stand apart from it. |
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In the wars of generational politics, one of the means for the young to belittle their elders is by misrepresenting the older generation with selective choices of media from their era. Such as the entire 1950's generation can be characterised as naive fools in the face of nuclear war by excerpts from the infamous 'duck and cover' informational newsreels. As everyone laughs, nobody asks the more difficult question of what significance did these newsreels have at the time. Were they taken seriously even then? Or for those not in the immediate vicinity of ground zero is this actually decent advice? Similarly how many people in the 1960s really participated in Flower Power, or roller disco in the 1970s? |
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As you've all probably noticed, I have not written much for the site in the last month, as I am deeply enmeshed in writing a film script which still has a rather open-ended completion date. So I thought it would be nice if in the interim we avail ourselves of the many entertaining, stimulating, or absolutely crazy youtube videos available. |
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