File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2003/postcolonial.0304, message 230


Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 12:48:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Maldoror <insektus-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: critical rock music


> And whatever happened to the old vogue of critical
> cultural studies on pop
> music? Most of it was rather poor criticism, but in
> any case...

thanks for the link. i had always thought that if i
were to get back into academia, that would be the
arena i'd like to enter. i like the whole idea of pop
music and politics and how music can be a place that
can open up alternate points of view. like when i had
mentioned to ben about punk (sex pistols, the clash,
etc.) and the critique of the british politik of the
time.

i know myself when i was a kid i began to question the
politics of the u$ through metallica's '...and justice
for all' album (gotta love the title track and 'the
shortest straw') because it was a counter to the
status quo was being taught in high school. it wasn't
until the end of my BA and my brief stint in master's
courses that those points were brought up and even
then it was in lit. classes that dissidence was
brought up.

there is definitely something that music can offer
when we consider the aforementioned bands and also rap
artists like nwa, public enemy, paris, eminem, etc. i
think these artists can and do have some impact on the
masses that can't afford higher education. though the
impact might be small it is important nevertheless,
and is definitely worth investigating.

gr3g

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