CB: >Don't you think that as a genre, rock'n'roll is a failure, like the
Soviet Union, and hoola hoops ? Isn't rock'n'roll a sort of dystopia ?<
I don't think that rock'n'roll and the hula hoop were failures. Even if the
current crap is worthless (and I'm listening to Western-folk like Robert
Earl Keen and Tom Russell or cynical-cabaret like Mary Ann Faithful), there
are always the old records to listen to. Besides, rock'n'roll will never
die. It shall be rise from the dead on the third day! (On hula hoops, see
"the Hudsucker Proxy." No further comments are needed.)
>Didn't it just come out that the CIA WAS promoting modern art with an
anti-communist political aim ? <
that doesn't mean that it was bad art. Good things can be used by bad
people. Besides, modern art seems better than most "socialist realism"
outside some Cuban works.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://liberalarts.lmu.edu/~jdevine
