One of the issues that I’m currently trying to work my way through deals with the politics of black cultural production. More specifically what happens to genres like rap, techno, house, as they move across space and time? To an extent this relates to issues of authenticity, though to be honest I don’t think that set of questions is really all that important. But what I find fascinating, among other things, is the unpredictability of consumption and circulation.
Check out the video below and see what I mean. Thanks to my man Tafari who also dropped on me the fact that on this date in 1831 black women in Boston founded the African American Female Intelligence Society.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMnk7lh9M3o[/youtube]
Les, what happens to the authenticity of source code, and feature/function sets as these move across the spectrum of open source users/developers?
Before I checked to see where this was from, I was thinking to myself, Chinese Peoples Democratic Republic etc…, and wondering whether “theatre arts” was deemed a safe and innocuous alternative to mass wu shu training.
I mean it’s actually funny as hell in that uniquely pillipino cultural mashup way that the authorities help inmates while away the time on lockdown by practicing theatre arts.
It’ll be funnier still to see elements of this turn up in villages, townships, and cities in the mix of tagalog, spanish, islamic, and other dance and theatre arts routines that are already about as massively infused with multiple influences as it’s possible to be.
Those islands exemplify the possibilities of truly open source culture….,
I should’ve called this video Jes Grew now that I think about it. In fact…reminds me of some more reading I need to do.
ROTFLMBAO!!!!
whew……,
So this makes like 10 times I have seen this video & it is still funny!
Gotta love black history.
Bygbaby