Pynchon vs. Hip-Hop

[Al X]

In the new TIME magazine (the one w/ the Philip Roth and Pynchon articles), 
Christopher John Farley writes of DJ Craze:

"Just as writers like Thomas Pynchon spin out novels that are a blend of 
literary references (it's no coincidence one of the main characters in The 
Crying of Lot 49 is a radio DJ),....Craze's work is simultaneously an 
assault on tradition and a tribute to what's gone before. His listeners get 
the future and the past in stereo: the nostalgia of old songs and the 
excitement of hearing that music torn down and rebuilt for new generations."

I haven't really been following this thread, so this might have already been 
mentioned, but it's an interesting juxtaposition of postmodern literature 
and what I guess we should call "postmodern music," music aware of its own 
history and "plots". And, of course, the whole literary references is a 
slight comparison, but a valid one, right?

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