hip hop
It's amazing how an underground ghetto movement can become a branded cultural movement. The same happened to the hippies, to grunge, to punk, to funk, to metal, to soul, to r'n'b. It's happening to UK grime as we speak. What initially starts as expression becomes banal repetition and stultification.
Initially movements start out with people figuring out what they can do with limited budget, on the fringes, for their communities. Once it gains attention, you get the hangers on, the recyclers and the pimps, all looking to wear culture as a costume, to pillage and to plunder. The originals tend to run & hide, switch direction, or kill themselves. (sorry Kurt)
Bring on the new days, where the laptop, or mobile computer or mobile phone does ANYTHING you can imagine. There are no practical limits with which to define a style, or force your hand. All limits are now self-imposed. It's all what you want it to be, your responsibility now. The canvas is truly blank, and ready for the brush.
Now there's no genre, no difference between audio and video and sound and music. It's all been mushed by multimedia, and nobody can get a handle on you unless you make that happen. There's no genres any more, no hallmarks of technique. That's all history now.
[ Last edited by bishopdante at 2008-10-10 01:51 AM ]
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