Deleuze & Air-Guitarri: Subpop of the 70s

Christopher Gunn 1k1mgm at KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU
Sun, 06 Jul 1997 16:19:15 -0600


>Also how was reggae a critique of transnational capitalism?

They were going to chase those crazy baldheads out of town.

>Is it still?
>And if not, when did it stop?

Don't know exactly, but a mainstream Associated Press article on
the legacy of Bob Marley focussed on how Marley's posthumous
_Legend_ alblum, one of the biggest long-term-selling records ever,
was deliberately de-politicized.  I'm not proposing to argue cause
and effect, but by the time reggae went from niche to big business,
it had changed (or been changed) from critique to ornamentation.

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