pynchon-l-digest V2 #1324

[Jon Clay]

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>Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 18:27:47 +1000
>From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
>Subject: Re: Eminem (was: Influenced by GR?)
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>jody, on black music and dance:
>
> > Jeez. That's too bad. It must have been REALLY cool before it became a
> > medium for "escape, rebellion, subversion"...
>
>The point is that r and b was either the food ticket for the black man or
>else it helped the black man forget that he didn't have a food ticket in
>white society. White man's r and b which followed was just pastiche. You
>could probably trace a similar genealogy for rap music.
>

Hmm, indeed, since there are no poor, oppressed, hungry or even just working 
class white people, after all. Presley, for example, was rich before he ever 
made his first record for his Mum's birthday, and his family never shot 
squirrels for meat. And his first records never contained as much 
country/hillbilly as they did r'n'b. White people NEVER need to escape the 
factory, the checkout till, the dole queue . . .
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