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Originally posted by Sahara
I agree with you, Bamboozled. I've pretty much stopped listening to a lot of the hip hop that comes out today because it just doesn't compare to what I listened to growing up.
The sad thing I've experienced is, when someone who doesn't understand tries to reject another for not subscribing to the lastest and newest thing.
Like you said, the people who really eat this stuff up are suburban white kids who enjoy the capitalization of the urban culture. Now, music and movies are made to cater to these audiences. There's little to no authenticity in what's produced. It doesn't "say" anything.
I've been trying to listen to and learn more about jazz, but even that is full of the comercialized "smooth jazz".
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If you're in New Jersey, tune into WBGO-FM 88 out of Newark,
www.wbgo.org. You can listen online. They play no commercialized smooth jazz stuff. They play the good ol' stuff, such as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, etc. etc.
I came to jazz rather late in life. It was my late father's favorite music. Now, I have over 200 CDs which don't get a lot of play because I live in LoCal and can listen to
www.kkjz.org, KKJZ-FM, in my car, in my house.
The sad thing is that many of us aren't as into real jazz as we should be. But that probably dates back to the 1940s, when the Bebop movement took the music out of the popular, danceable realm.