>> dont you fools >> know that the music knows no color? This is a lovely idealistic thought but you really can't isolate music in some kind of poetic vacuum. The music is a product of a certain cultural, social and economic hegemony and the circumstances determine whether it is heard or not and by whom. This affects people of colour making music, women making music, musicians in Second or Third World countries..... There is incredible cutting-edge hip-hop style music coming out of South Africa but how many of us get to hear it? Instead this music is 'ghettoised' as 'World Music' or not disseminated at all.
The thing is, by building support, some people can to a point intervene in this paradigm and I think many techno types have done this - look at how UR brilliantly handled the Rolando/Jaguar situation! Genius. In a pop paradigm I feel in different ways Madonna and Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott really flipped the script for female artists. Juan has spoken of these issues in other interviews and he is always matter of fact about them. I personally feel there is validity to his arguments/heard some interesting things. But whether you agree or not, why can't we discuss them without getting personal? Actually I have forgotten what the original debate was about! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
