Eminem (was: Influenced by GR?)

[Dave Monroe]

... yeah, I caught that as well, and it's not as if all that vinyl grows on
trees, either ... on the other hand, typically, the electricity involved in
impromptu or otehrwise street performances was, indeed, and like many of
the copyrighted recordings involved, appropriated from The Man, but ... but
it comes down to that bricolage (Levi-Strauss, Barthes) thing, I suppose,
working with what you have at hand, reworking what you have at hand, and
let us not discount the investment of time and money involved in, say,
learing a traditional musical instrument.  One Kool Herc, at the time a
Jamaican immigrant in New York, is credited with putting that particular
hip-hop spin ("No puns where one intended," Samuel Beckett ... but whatever
that "spin" would be ...) on things, ca. 1973, as I recall, but, of course,
he came from that Jamaican sound system, dub, whatever, tradition.  There's
a new, third, marginally updated edition of David Toop's Rap Attack out,
still serves as a decent intro to the subject, so far as I know, and I
believe that Kool Herc himself is still performing ...

Mark Wright AIA wrote:

> Howdy
> --- Lorentzen / Nicklaus <lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de> wrote:
> (that) hiphop emerged the way it did, had also to do with the fact that
> the participators did not have the money to buy instruments ... what
> they actually had were two turntables and a microphone ...
>
> ...which of course cost nothing...
> Mark
>
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