On 30 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> http://bhere.com/ruins/industry/indpacpan.htm
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> "Detroit's decline and fall" is a process still going on, still mostly
> undocumented, and still essential to understanding the origin and
> development of electronic music in Detroit.
I'm feeling you....but I profoundly disagree. Detroit has been "declining
and falling" since the ascension of Coleman Young...but though urban
disinvestment is REAL and did indeed begin in Detroit. there's this
"Detroit went to hell since the riots" vibe that embodies a significant
genre of literature about detroit.
i don't buy it. and by creating a work of art that is based on the
implicit premise that detroit is empty....of people, and of dynamic
(rather than static) beauty, i think the creator of RUINS is really
missing out on something....
peace
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Lester Kenyatta Spence [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Washington University at St. Louis
"We illuminate the contradictions and call it
the light"
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