Black music
25 Jan '11 23:26Blacks have always produced the best music for my sensibilities. Then came Rap and the whole thing went belly up. Bring back Motown and drop this Rap crap.
25 Jan '11 23:32Originally posted by buckkyBring back acoustic country blues and then we can talk. Do the names Mississippi John Hurt, Reverend Gary Davis, Brownie Mcgee, Sonny Terry, Blind Blake, Robert Johnson
Blacks have always produced the best music for my sensibilities. Then came Rap and the whole thing went belly up. Bring back Motown and drop this Rap crap.
26 Jan '11 03:57Originally posted by buckkyAnd how! I miss the great music both of the sixties, the thirties, forties, the incredible inventiveness of the Ellingtons, jazz greats like Armstong, many others too numerous to name, Hendrix, Coltrane and on and on!
Blacks have always produced the best music for my sensibilities. Then came Rap and the whole thing went belly up. Bring back Motown and drop this Rap crap.
26 Jan '11 06:521 editOriginally posted by scacchipazzoone must not forget Scott Joplin!
And how! I miss the great music both of the sixties, the thirties, forties, the incredible inventiveness of the Ellingtons, jazz greats like Armstong, many others too numerous to name, Hendrix, Coltrane and on and on!
06 Feb '11 22:01Originally posted by JDev84The incessant beat for one. Mindless and intellectually numbing. It makes dead black greats roll in their graves! I can't imagine Duke Ellington embracing this garbage!
as a self described "Hip Hop Head", i have to ask - whats with the rap-bashing? what is so repulsive about the medium?
07 Feb '11 00:03Originally posted by sonhouseI know a fellow who performs here in Scottsdale, Az, name is Hans Olson. He told me that he tool Sonny Terry's place in the band up in Minnesota.
Bring back acoustic country blues and then we can talk. Do the names Mississippi John Hurt, Reverend Gary Davis, Brownie Mcgee, Sonny Terry, Blind Blake, Robert Johnson
ring a bell?
07 Feb '11 00:10Originally posted by JDev84I think it's 2 things for most people.
as a self described "Hip Hop Head", i have to ask - whats with the rap-bashing? what is so repulsive about the medium?
07 Feb '11 03:58Originally posted by AThousandYoungAre you kidding me? Jazz was never inner city at all and was never associated with drugs. Jazz as we know it might even be credited to Debussy. He's real inner city, isn't he? How could you compare a protomusic like rap with jazz? How much jazz was gangsta? One is of unparalleled artistry, the other mindless beat, nasty lyrics, saggy pants, horrible performers and presents absolutely no value whatsoever!
I think it's 2 things for most people.
1) The lyrics are spoken rhythmically to a beat, not sung, and instruments are often artificial, which kind of takes away a lot of the human musical artistry, and
2) The genre is still in that phase where jazz once was, associated with inner city impoverished criminals of color and all the social baggage t ...[text shortened]... o psychoanalyze and reinterpret it and for the once-poor rappers to get used to their wealth.
07 Feb '11 06:321 editOriginally posted by scacchipazzohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Anslinger
Are you kidding me? Jazz was never inner city at all and was never associated with drugs. Jazz as we know it might even be credited to Debussy. He's real inner city, isn't he? How could you compare a protomusic like rap with jazz? How much jazz was gangsta? One is of unparalleled artistry, the other mindless beat, nasty lyrics, saggy pants, horrible performers and presents absolutely no value whatsoever!
07 Feb '11 11:28Originally posted by scacchipazzoNever associated with drugs? Err... You're right jazz drew from modern classical music (at the time) like the impressionists, Stravinsky, etc. but that hardly makes it less "inner city" music.
Are you kidding me? Jazz was never inner city at all and was never associated with drugs. Jazz as we know it might even be credited to Debussy. He's real inner city, isn't he? How could you compare a protomusic like rap with jazz? How much jazz was gangsta? One is of unparalleled artistry, the other mindless beat, nasty lyrics, saggy pants, horrible performers and presents absolutely no value whatsoever!
07 Feb '11 11:32Originally posted by scacchipazzoI suggest you read Charlie Parker and Miles Davis autobiographies.
Are you kidding me? Jazz was never inner city at all and was never associated with drugs. Jazz as we know it might even be credited to Debussy. He's real inner city, isn't he? How could you compare a protomusic like rap with jazz? How much jazz was gangsta? One is of unparalleled artistry, the other mindless beat, nasty lyrics, saggy pants, horrible performers and presents absolutely no value whatsoever!
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