Klarinet Archive - Posting 001286.txt from 1998/07

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Classical Music and Young People
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 15:40:02 -0400

From: Craig Earl Countryman <cegc@-----.net>
>There are forms of
>music that are bad, for example rap songs that use the f-word every line,
>sometimes twice or three times per line. I wasn't referring to country or
>something like that -- I think country is bad, simply because I do not like
it
>-- but to stuff that just about everyone, other than the audience it
appeals to,
>thinks is bad.

Yet many very famous (and considered very good) comedians use that work
every other line in their comedy routines. Why should rap "music" be held to
a higher standard than popular comedy?

I tend to think of rap "music" more as street poetry - most very bad, some
mediocre, and one or two real poets out there. But I don't put it in the
same category as music.
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