From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sat Mar 12 2005 - 04:11:10 GMT
Platt quoted Alan Bloom:
"Rock music has one appeal only, a barbaric appeal, to sexual desire --
not love, not eros, but sexual desire undeveloped and untutored. It
acknowledges the first emanations of children's emerging sensuality...
Young people know that rock has the beat of sexual intercourse...."
dmb quotes a punk band:
Washington Bullets by THE CLASH
Oh! Mama, Mama look there!
Your children are playing in that street again
Don't you know what happened down there?
A youth of fourteen got shot down there
The Kokane guns of Jamdown Town
The killing clowns, the blood money men
Are shooting those Washington bullets again
As every cell in Chile will tell
The cries of the tortured men
Remember Allende, and the days before,
Before the army came
Please remember Victor Jara,
In the Santiago Stadium,
Es verdad - those Washington Bullets again
And in the Bay of Pigs in 1961,
Havana fought the playboy in the Cuban sun,
For Castro is a colour,
Is a redder than red,
Those Washington bullets want Castro dead
For Castro is the colour...
...That will earn you a spray of lead
For the very first time ever,
When they had a revolution in Nicaragua,
There was no interference from America
Human rights in America
Well the people fought the leader,
And up he flew...
With no Washington bullets what else could he do?
'N' if you can find a Afghan rebel
That the Moscow bullets missed
Ask him what he thinks of voting Communist...
...Ask the Dalai Lama in the hills of Tibet,
How many monks did the Chinese get?
In a war-torn swamp stop any mercenary,
'N' check the British bullets in his armoury
Que?
Sandinista!
dmb adds:
Its punk with a reggae beat. If Bloom is right, then this song should make
me horny. So why does it make me angry? Listening to the entire album is
slightly more informative than taking a freshman level course in American
foreign policy. Plus you can dance to it. This is great music and that's not
just my opinion. Its a scientific fact. ;-)
I honestly wonder if guys like Platt and Ham could be persuaded by argument?
I mean, it seems obvious to me that Pirsig is a very strong advocate for the
contrarians. The creative and evolutionary force that drives the contrarian
is just as likely to be found among musicians as any other kind of artist.
Aren't artists and social critics the same thing in this sense? Isn't art
SUPPOSED to be subversive and skeptical? HELL YES! I mean, show me a guy who
gets upset about rock music, which is essentially anti-conformist, and I'll
show you a very clueless dude.
Sure, there is plenty of music for and about sex. But does anyone really
think that's all there is to it or that sex is not sold to us every minute
of everyday in every medium known to man? I hate to break it to you, geezer
dudes, but Elvis did not invent the desire for nookie.
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