is there anywhere Nietzsche wouldn't have outclassed our present-day bloggers?
Another new discovery (courtesy of glueboot).
Also here (apparently the same author), with some astute words on hiphop and revolution ( I think I partly agree...). The search for the overt signs of an effective 'counter-culture', which never arrives, can only lead to despair. The energy of popular culture is of itself potentially revolutionary...('How did it happen? The counter-culture was always so explicit about not letting them separate our culture and our politics' reminds me of the powerful Spinozan/D&Gian/Nietzschean meme that the work of the strata/sad passions is 'to separate bodies from what they can do.')
'The worst sell outs, we would be told (if we were still listening to those who care about selling out) are the rappers, who took the beautiful nascent counter-culture of Grandmaster Flash and Public Enemy and reduced it to bling and bitches ... this criticism fails to understand where the revolutionary potential of hip-hop came from in the first place. Because perhaps the most interesting thing is that hip-hop has never been a counter-culture; it didn't start out as oppositional (unlike Rock'n'roll, which, as the white appropriation of blues was a more or less conscious rejection of class and race priviledge).'
Posted by robin at April 7, 2004 09:59 AMYes, indeed. My instinctive reaction to the quoted critique was a bored groan. Nice to read a on and find a suggestion for a critique of the critique. But more please: the interesting thing may be that Hip-Hope never began as oppositional. But why that might be significant I'm not clear. Expansion is a future post would be welcomed.
Posted by: dialo at April 27, 2004 01:19 PM
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