From Dunc Chaplin Sent Tue, Sep 8th 1998, 22:33
From Dunc Chaplin Sent Tue, Sep 8th 1998, 22:33
> I haven't read "Generation Ecstacy", but I have read a fair bit of > Reynolds' other work (articles, mostly). While I agree that his attitudes > towards substance use are grating at times (especially for somebody who > doesn't really use illicit substances), I find myself agreeing with him on > other subjects sometimes. His dismissal of cookie-cutter > fungle/drill-n-bass/whatever especially hits home - check > http://members.aol.com/blissout/over97.htm for the full article. As refer to Wire issues #136 and #137 for the heated class/racial controversy surrounding Simon Reynolds' article on Jungle. it provides some interesting reading, if you missed it the first time around. Reynolds' defense being that he was addressing a tension in the Jungle community between two impulses: gentrification versus ghettocentricity. whateva' man. you can try guessing the accussations. i'm a little too busy to type all this stuff out, sorry. doesn't Reynolds have his own homepage or something? when ranking Simon Reynolds against Princetonian Babbitry, i'm gonna have to go with the ghettocenctricity of Other Music... eric.