[Harp-L] Bad News Brown

[Jonathan Ross <jross38@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think the attitudes towards hip-hop and rapping in particular are  
essentially generational, much like previous splits over jazz,  
rock&roll, punk and funk.  Most people (by no means all, but most)  
over a certain age simply don't understand or find value in the new  
musical form and it takes decades, if ever, for this to change.  But,  
most under a certain age embrace it fully simply because it is their  
culture--it feels natural to them.  Later, a more developed form of  
the new music emerges which tends to be made by those who grew up  
after the initial schism and so they fully accept and understand the  
new form.  We're in that phase with hip-hop; rock can be seen as  
going through that phase in the 60's, a decade or more after the  
first big rock&roll wave; jazz was in that phase in the late 30's and  
early 40's after jazz hit big in the 20's and 30's.

This sort of schism is part of the nature of popular music as being  
essentially a youth experience (as has been the case for the last  
hundred years, if not longer).  Indeed, it's probably healthy in many  
ways, as all of these splits tended to be focused on a form of  
youthful rebellion, which is a natural part of growing up.

I'm just excited that there will be some harmonica played by someone  
on the youth side of the latest split--and that they're doing it well  
from.





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