[NewMusic] Wynton chatter assailed

[Matthew Goodheart]

Hmmmm. Okay, but I always think it's better to turn the 
Marsalis/Crouch/et al reasoning against itself. What are implied by 
their assumptions? What picture of the way the world functions by 
describing it this way? Not to mention the politcal/economic use of 
their image: When Wynton is used in an ad for a $1500 Mandavi watch in 
the New Yorker, what does this say about the acceptability of his 
persona to certain economically elite classes? It's pretty easy to turn 
their own words against them and expose the hypocrisies that form the 
basis of their philosophy.

Here's his commentary on misogyny in black culture from his highly 
informative promotional video on amazon about his new post-Katrina 
album "From the Plantation to the Penitentiary," which seems to be a 
grand explication of his world and life philosophy:

> That came more from a bourgeois American advertisement. They don’t 
> never find a woman they don’t mind putting down, or using in a messed 
> up way. Then came all this kind of misogyny just rolled out in our 
> culture. Just everything’s got to be just somebody with their ass out, 
> it’s all just making fun of women like they’re stupid, they’re dumb, 
> they’re this, they’re that. And it’s just non-stop. And we don’t 
> understand that women’s going to make love to you anyway, you don’t 
> have to put her down. You ain’t gonna get no less for putting her 
> down. You could get more actually. But it’s like all these base 
> equations, we lost sight them for some reason.

Yep. The "basic equation" is that you shouldn't disrespect women 
because then they will have more sex with you.

He also has a critique of consumerism in his "Supercaptialism."  But 
then there are the Mondavi watch ads, the corporate donations to the 
Jazz at Lincoln Center (part of the Time Warner complex). I'd also be 
curious how much tickets cost to the Lincoln Center jazz stuff, but the 
site wouldn't load. . .

And don't miss his New Orleans style rap in "Where Y'All At?"

> Don’t  turn up your nose, it’s us that’s thinkin’
> It all can’t be blamed on the party of Lincoln.
> The Left and the Right got the country sinkin’
> That’s the Scales of Justice’s hands that set our eyes to blinkin’.


mg



On Mar 12, 2007, at 9:58 AM, Robair, Gino wrote:

> Someone forwarded this link to me today...
> http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/4954/1/32/
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