Consider the way that music—notably, in America, jazz and hip-hop—developed both distinct regional flavours as well as an overarching hybrid style. Some may prefer, say, New Orleans jazz to the less regional schools of bebop or free jazz, but nobody would seriously argue for the superiority of one over the other. It is comforting to believe in the purity of isolation, and to believe that good barbecue exists only in a remote tarpaper shack, or in obscure blues clubs in Memphis, but it is a fiction. Barbecue, like jazz, develops from conversation, from talking and listening, from eating and thinking.
Barbecue and American culture: Fire in the hole | The Economist (via desnoise)
Mmmm…I think he’s off in the “overarching hybrid style” aspect as it applies to “hip hop,” and the fact that people interested in this music do argue regularly (and vehemently) over the superiority of one artist, record, track, etc., over another. (See, i.e., “true school” types and most blawg commentors.)
But agree that hip hop develops from conversation, talking and listening. Just not sure that’s by people on the Internet.
-SM
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All I know is that I’m excited to read anything about barbecue and hiphop, even if it’s really about jazz