On 7/14/09, waistli...@aol.com >
> All this stuff about MJ brings people - black and white, together is a tad
> bit much. I believe what is meant is how in the flesh he expressed a
> certain homogenizing of the culture. First in America with the destruction of
> segregation and the "race records a
In a message dated 7/14/2009 11:45:12 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
cb31...@gmail.com writes:
> > But to tell the truth, I'm more interested in the Jazz Icons DVDs,
> > consisting of video footage of concerts by the greats such as Sonny
> > Rollins, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, John Coltrane, etc. I w
> > Of course this stuff is silly. Aside from the obvious, it might be
> > interesting to delve into the ideological content of Jackson's songs
> > and his views. Also, the social basis of his pathology.
> >
> > But to tell the truth, I'm more interested in the Jazz Icons DVDs,
> > consisting of vi
Well, Adorno started thinking out this over 65 years ago. And this is
when popular taste was probably far more discerning than it is today,
pace Adorno's notions about jazz. The steady debasement of pop music
since the late '70s is not much of a mystery, and with generational
turnover and the
On Jul 12, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Ralph Dumain wrote:
> Not a problem for me. A problem for you?
>
> At 01:13 PM 7/12/2009, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> On Jul 12, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Ralph Dumain wrote:
>>
>>> Of course this stuff is silly. Aside from the obvious, it might be
>>> interesting to delve into
Not a problem for me. A problem for you?
At 01:13 PM 7/12/2009, Doug Henwood wrote:
>On Jul 12, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Ralph Dumain wrote:
>
> > Of course this stuff is silly. Aside from the obvious, it might be
> > interesting to delve into the ideological content of Jackson's songs
> > and his views
On Jul 12, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Ralph Dumain wrote:
> Of course this stuff is silly. Aside from the obvious, it might be
> interesting to delve into the ideological content of Jackson's songs
> and his views. Also, the social basis of his pathology.
>
> But to tell the truth, I'm more interested in
Of course this stuff is silly. Aside from the obvious, it might be
interesting to delve into the ideological content of Jackson's songs
and his views. Also, the social basis of his pathology.
But to tell the truth, I'm more interested in the Jazz Icons DVDs,
consisting of video footage of conce
Lke much we have read about Michael Jackson this contribution lacks
any analysis in Marxist terms of why at this particular juncture in
the crisis of capitalism this particular evidence of its "dying
culture" (Caudwell's useful phrase) becomes the focus of the diversion
of human energies from the t