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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000027.txt from 2005/07

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:12:21 -0400


"If "heavy metal" was the Anglo-American contribution to low culture, then=20
"rap" was the African-American donation. And if "metal" came from the garag=
e=20
where Junior had been sent with his guitar and extension cord, then rap cam=
e=20
from the street where young blacks played the only instruments they could =20
afford=E2=80=94the mouth organ and the foot drum. Rap is performed in street=
clothes; =20
metal in elaborate costumes of leather and fringe. In metal, the volume carr=
ies =20
the aggression; in rap it is the words. Both are rife with adolescent=20
misogyny, homophobia, and threats of violence. They are rude, bawdy, boastf=
ul, with a=20
kind of "in your face" aggression (called "attitude") characteristic of=20
insecure masculinity. Both musical forms were unique, however, in that they=
=20
produced platinum records with little radio exposure. They found their audi=
ence on=20
MTV."
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-James B. Twitchell (b. 1943) U.S. film historian, educator
"Carnival Culture: The Trashing of Taste in America," ch. 5, Colorado =20
University Press (1992)

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