Re: Letter to Bill Weinberg/Turkish Rock-and-Roll

2003-10-26 Thread e. ahmet tonak
Sabri, I am "the" Turkish friend who "hated" Turkish rock-and-roll from the 1970s.  BTW, "hate'" is not the right word to describe my emotional/intellectual distance to this musical imitation --a bad one-- in Turkey and only THEN, i.e. in the 1970's.  I

Re: Letter to Bill Weinberg/Turkish Rock-and-Roll

2003-10-26 Thread Louis Proyect
Ahmet wrote: Sabri, I am "the" Turkish friend who "hated" Turkish rock-and-roll from the 1970s. BTW, "hate'" is not the right word to describe my emotional/intellectual distance to this musical imitation --a bad one-- in Turkey and only THEN, i.e. in the 1

Re: Turkish Rock-and-Roll

2003-10-26 Thread Sabri Oncu
Ahmet: > Though, the causal link is not an automatic one for me: > because it was surreal then one had to love it. This was not my logic Ahmet. I did not say that one had to love it. I only said that it is loveable and this is how I feel when I look back at it from today. It is what our society w