Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many ways, coolness is obsolete. The birth of New Wave in the late seventies means the end of cool, means the end of the particular posturing that defined cool. Cultivated instead is a sort of anti-cool, something that comes along with the anti-rock star. So far from cool that it becomes very much like cool in many ways. The formulation of anti-cool is the inevitable product of rock, in many ways: coolness comes from jazz; it was invented by Miles Davis and perfected by John Coltrane. White people can never really be cool. That's why they...
...what was rock's claim to fame...
...Rock 'n roll is the way white people can resist dominant structures. It's a way to imagine and create yourself outside of what created you and to say something in a way that can be subversive. People with no reason to resist imagine a reason and sing it. Which is why even though rock begins white, it spirals out control, becomes desegregated almost immediately...
...many ways, the average listener experiences it. Any connection to rock is primarily visceral...
...buys a Sex Pistols record at Blockbuster music still has a Sex Pistols record. It's like selling sex if selling sex also meant selling commentary on sex that forced you to think about how sex functions politically. This is all getting too serious, though. It's like this: rock'n roll is fun for the kids...