{"id":2940,"date":"2011-05-09T04:11:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T09:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/05\/09\/history-repeating\/"},"modified":"2011-05-09T04:14:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T09:14:55","slug":"history-repeating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/05\/09\/history-repeating\/","title":{"rendered":"History repeating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"alignright\">\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/sTUIHK7gHRE?fs=1&amp;hl=nl_NL\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/sTUIHK7gHRE?fs=1&amp;hl=nl_NL\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nW. Kasper comes to that inevitable point in the rock critic&#8217;s lifecycle that he has to bemoan <a href=\"http:\/\/perelebrun.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/you-left-ole-in-back-of-my-ead.html\">the kids today<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe most interesting, fruitful aspect of British pop in the 90s was when it was, well, mixed race; if not physically at least sonically. Any innovations (however minor), and the sense that you were hearing something said differently, was related to this (Two Tone had a more important social impact than punk: discuss). Considering this, Britpop was even more hideously reactionary than many assume, which may be why Gorrilaz are more listenable and inoffensive (in a good sense) than Blur. The chronic social\/racial stratification of British pop (since the end of the 90s) sealed the lid on its coffin as anything relevant. If experience is anything to go by, &#8216;the kids&#8217; are now more starkly divided into &#8216;indie&#8217; (white) or &#8216;urban&#8217; (black), with all the class division that implies.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nReally? I&#8217;m not sure this last complaint is a) true or b) different from any other point in British pop history. 2-Tone was only a blip and its most succesful band, Madness, wasn&#8217;t all that multiracial. If you look at it from far away British pop has always been about a few pioneers getting inspired (stealing) Black music and making it palatable to a white audience, followed by a backlash as it all becomes a bit too mixed: hence Oasis, or a few years earlier, The Smiths, or even earlier The Kinks: all self-consciously English bands as response to a pop culture that had become too un-English, too American and too dancable.  Crossover has always been more rare than coexistence, yet the reality of most people&#8217;s musical experience is much more pick &#8216;n mix than their self indentification as &#8220;indie&#8221; or &#8220;urban&#8221; suggests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W. Kasper comes to that inevitable point in the rock critic&#8217;s lifecycle that he has to bemoan the kids today: The most interesting, fruitful aspect of British pop in the 90s was when it was, well, mixed race; if not physically at least sonically. Any innovations (however minor), and the sense that you were hearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2943,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions\/2943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}