[PenultimateManStanding]

an interesting series of editorials and opinions at atimes.com. I read them always, like I do Kunstler's blog. Only thing that I don't care for is his disparaging attitude to American music. He likes opera or something and thinks that our music is the music of peasants and trailer trash. He does like Dashiell Hammett, the writer who wrote The Maltese Falcon. But as for music, nothing in the last 100 years can compare in terms of quality to Charlie Parker or Dizzie Gillespie or Coltrane or Mulligan or how about the singing of Billie Holiday? Even the more recent stuff of Curtis Mayfield is good music. I do think the whole scene has collapsed somewhat. But I blame it on electronics. I guess I can understand the anger behind Rap: even the great musicians of 1950 who happened to be black got no respect. back in 1930 they didn't try to get respect, they just played for the crowd to dance to. Maybe that's what Spengler doesn't like: dancing.

[PenultimateManStanding]

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')Spengler? what's that?