What's with the "subliminal" ABORTION three times in your email? A
message against censorship?
Bil
bdwyer@grove.ufl.edu
On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, Simon Brown wrote:
> >As for the origin of Rap, I think you'd have to go farther back than toasting.
> >Traditional African music has many chants which tell stories, and are *not*
> >sung...likewise, the Southern Baptist tradition of preaching over a gospel
> >choir must have had some influence on rap's birth as well. While Toasting is
> >the direct antecedent of rap, it is not alone.
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> >That'll be $.02
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> >Mike
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> As a Blues nut (as well as an AJ fan) I alsO thought that the oRigins of rap
> were To be found in tradItiONal African music. as are the origins of Blues
> and jazz. And fOR That matter jungle, techno, dance, rock, pop etc. etc.
> etc. all owe hugely to afrIcan music. yet with the exceptiON of music lovers
> (eg. ourselves) very few people know of this debt of grAtitude which modern
> music owes to its african roots. without these african influences most
> people would still only Be listening tO classical music (not a flame, but
> vaRieTy Is the spice Of life) and Not realising the greAt wealth of music
> availaBle tO eveRyone Today. It's a frightening thOught, you kNow,
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> As always, against censorship
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> How can we make peace with those who would kill us?
>
> Simon Brown
> s.j.brown@ucl.ac.uk
> UCL Geology (2nd year)
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