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alright scroobius
amazing gig last night!
me and my mate where right infront of you.
are you at glastonbury next year?
good look with the new album by the way

check out my new tracks n see what u think!

Peace X

Whats the SP?

I sense contradictory movements in your words SP.
On one hand 'thou shalt kill' suggests a reticence to engage with the
capitalist machinery of the music industry, the obvious thought being
"Scroobuis Pip, just a band" eh? While on the other hand 'fixed' seems
to imply that you are hoping to raise your ontological status from
rapper to artist (via poet). Trouble with art is that its a social
construction of 18th century European society used to disenfranchise
the masses from popular expression and frame it as purely the domain of
the intellectual (ubermensch) and something supranatural rather than
everday phenomena. This also allows its comodification and sale, hence
is pervasiveness as a dominant ideology today. The people are left with
their 'folk art' whilst their transition to 'high art' is held up as
aspirational, a 'dream'.

Take
a concrete example from music look at the rise of the Jazz movement.
Originally an underground urban phenomena created wihin African
American communities it was co-opted by european intellectual theorists
into an 'artform'. Theorists began to ponder over its nature, causes
and then to deconstruct its methods and properties. However for the
people who originated the form its was instinctive, immediate,
compelling and...beautiful. It didn't require a theory to understand or
appreciate it it just was. Note the past tense there as Jazz as a form
of urban expression does not exist anymore, you can (unbelievaby) be
taught Jazz at a college, write about it and classify and judge it.
There is something horribly wrong with even the basic notion of being
able to write about music in this way. As the Mark Perry author of punk
fanzine 'Sniffin Glue' once said, "writing about music is like dancing
to architecture".



All I can say S