[Dixielandjazz] Is it "DeJa Vu" (all over again)

[Steve barbone]

Is this basically the way "Jazz" was first perceived 100 years ago?

Cheers,
Steve Barbone

April 17, 2005 - AUDIENCE REPORT - NY TIMES - By ELIZABETH MÉNDEZ BERRY

Taking the Rap

Questioning rap music's portrayals of women is becoming something of a
cottage industry: Essence magazine has sponsored a "Take Back the Music"
campaign, and town hall meetings and conferences are popping up all over. At
the University of Chicago's "Feminism and Hip Hop" event last weekend,
musicians, scholars and activists were joined by some of the young listeners
they professed to be most worried about: a group of Chicago high school
students, who held their own panel. Elizabeth Méndez Berry spoke with them
about some of the lyrics and images under question.

"There's a song now by the Ying Yang Twins called the 'Whisper Song.' Oh my
God. I went down to my sister's college and this guy was playing that song,
but it was the real version, not the edited version. And I was like, 'Could
you please turn that off?' Even though they're making money on it, that is
not right. I don't think they would want their mother to be called a bitch."
Bianca Keyes, 17 

"Truthfully I'm not a feminist yet 'cause I don't get the real hard meaning.
I don't understand how when a man calls a woman a bitch or a ho, she gets
offended, but when some girls call other girls bitches or ho's, they don't
get offended. ... My cousin is a pimp, and he doesn't smack the girls around
or anything. He's nice to them, he gives them money. It's just a job for
him."  - Christopher Durr, 16

"When I think about Nelly's 'Tip Drill' video" - in which Nelly runs a
credit card between a woman's nearly bare buttocks - "I do think that he was
just making money. He didn't say that all women are tip drills. But then
again, why do you have to make a song like that?" - Jessica Robinson, 17