tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6146962885201070339.post329375066166644478..comments2023-10-02T10:57:07.769+02:00Comments on Birdseed's Tunedown: AlmostBirdseedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01161105277182690887noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6146962885201070339.post-42129113723165714432009-02-11T21:41:00.000+01:002009-02-11T21:41:00.000+01:00viktigt!viktigt!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6146962885201070339.post-69725281775891949272008-08-01T03:10:00.000+02:002008-08-01T03:10:00.000+02:00Maybe hipsters want only to see the slums as a fan...Maybe hipsters want only to see the slums as a fantasy world without facing the reality of it. So if they hear it in the music, that's cool. But they don't want to see someone who actually lives the life in poverty lest they feel guilty.<BR/><BR/>The "almost" concept is really interesting. Great post.quanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03102639273079228144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6146962885201070339.post-47824930200470536432008-07-30T23:53:00.000+02:002008-07-30T23:53:00.000+02:00Yeah, I feel that aspect of it too. Some of the bi...Yeah, I feel that aspect of it too. Some of the bigger acts from, say, Tanzania, make it here and play sets of bongo flava or whatever, but always in diasporadic venues far from my admittedly fairly hipsterish circles. And it's damn hard to find out about it!Birdseedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01161105277182690887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6146962885201070339.post-9406092129448796472008-07-30T23:16:00.000+02:002008-07-30T23:16:00.000+02:00If they booked actual rap acts they might get too ...If they booked actual rap acts they might get too many black people in the audience, then those hipsters might get all self-conscious about throwing ironic gang signs and shit.<BR/><BR/>The MC Gringo thing, this happens all the time, no matter the intentions of the artist. It's much easier for a white Euro traveller type to get booked in Europe by European promoters than for those promoters to track down dudes in the favelas who have maybe never left Rio, have rap sheets, only speak Portuguese, and in short are potentially TOO DANGEROUS for most promoters who tend to be extremely conservative as suits their profit motive. <BR/><BR/>Same thing with cumbia, I have been asking around where cumbia bands play (there are a million Mexicans in my city, and cumbia is definitely the hot sound of the summer) -- no one knows, the girl at the spanish CD shop didn't think the sonidero bands came to Chicago. But of course I can see some digi/almost-cumbia on the Zizek tour. Which is fine, I like some of that stuff, but I wish I had the option to see both.Gavinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13465384822564027635noreply@blogger.com