roundtable: Re: Gangsta Rap and the Publi...

roundtable: Re: Gangsta Rap and the Publi...

Re: Gangsta Rap and the Publi...

RznDemoPM@aol.com
Wed, 28 Jun 1995 16:54:54 -0400 

Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 16:54:54 -0400
From: RznDemoPM@aol.com
Message-Id: <950628165453_80264680@aol.com>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Re: Gangsta Rap and the Publi...


Jeff Briggs is right on the mark to contrast the corporate exploitation 
of Gangsta Rap with his own homage to a different kind of cultural 
product...

> I make TV programs of a different kind. I made a documentary
> called "El Charanguero" about Argentine charango player Jaime Torres that
> brought tears, respect, and expressions of gratitude and love from the
> Argentinians who saw it. It languished in limbo until Terry Dugas of 
> this list was kind enough to facilitate a showing with SECA, a non-profit
> educational satellite distributor who will send it up in August nation-
> wide - but for no money, and each sation is free to use it or not as they
> see fit, at any time of night or day.

This gross misanthropy would be just a little less all-pervasive if 
only the so-called "public sector" were not completely dominated by 
the private sector--which, in the case of broadcast media, would not 
exist without the usurpation of a public resourse--the airwaves.

Paul Rosenberg
Reason & Democracy
<rzndemopm@aol.com>

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