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Post by Jeff on Mar 8, 2006 16:24:43 GMT -5
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Post by Betterout on Mar 8, 2006 17:54:40 GMT -5
Aaaahhh.... I guess I'm going to be purchasing a book soon...
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Post by Jeff on Mar 8, 2006 18:25:58 GMT -5
This from the Slate discussion. I think this may be the problem that David is having with my music, though I am nothing next to these luminaries:
"I've noticed that quite a few Americans are resistant to the idea that there's any connection between, say, the agit-funk of Gang of Four and the glam-disco of ABC. That's a big impetus behind Rip It Up: to show that it was all one movement, one long cultural moment. The evolution of a band like Scritti Politti, a bunch of communist squat-dwellers making fractured, avant-garde music, into Billboard Top 20 stars, proves there's a continuum there, as does the transformation of Joy Division into New Order."
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"'Pop' has just never been such a dirty word in Britain as it has been for most American fans of left-field music. There was always a tradition of weird, arty groups having hits—Roxy Music, Bowie, or even Sparks, an American group that was huge in England but never got anywhere near the Billboard Top 40."
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