--- Myroslaw Bytz <vzaem@humbledesign.com> wrote:
quoted 7 lines even so if you slap a label
> even so if you slap a label
> like art on something it's lapped up by consumers.
> the reason i began to
> question this was that i heard a lot of hip-hop
> heads pushing for their form
> of expression, hip-hop, to be considered art. why?
> what would it prove?
OK, this email is expression. I am expressing myself,
get it? But is it art? You would say, there's no
such thing as art so it's a pointless question. I
would say, art is a definite category of human
expression. There is a reason that a well-written
scientific theory (one form of expression) is seen as
different from Moby Dick (another form of expression).
As for hip-hop, I almost agreed with you there, but
here's the error in your logic: You're assuming that
hip-hop was not art to begin with, and that some
people were pushing for it to be called art. This is
incorrect. It *was* art, but it was not *recognized*
as art. Pushing for underground art forms to be
recognized is an age old battle. Just because it
isn't recognized as "art" by the old curmugeons
doesn't mean it isn't art - that's the whole point of
trying to get it recognized. It was art all along, it
just wasn't recognized by the establishment. Does it
matter? That depends on what you think is important.
If culture is important to someone, they're going to
want the establishment to change because an
establishment view that denies the validity of
someone's expression basically denies the worth of
that someone.
So, what does it prove? It proves that hip-hop isn't
just some idiots in a city somewhere playing with
turntables and a microphone. It recognizes that there
is something more there for human beings.
Whether or not *that* is true is, I suppose,
questionable, and also whether or not it makes any
difference.
My own opinion is that if you want to create, just
create, and stop fucking around with worrying about
what others think about what you're doing. Just do
it. Think of the time you wasted writing to this list
when you could have been doing something more
productive! Most of the people I admire in life don't
sit around all day discussing the merits of their work
- they just do the work.
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