March 15th, 2008
linkthink #7890: Mobile Technology
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“The next step was obvious, neo-cumbia started being exported to the US where it was welcomed by cosmopolitan hipsters, always in search of the newest third-world dance beat, last season it was the Brazilian Favela Funk, now it’s cumbia!”
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youtube’s “most viewed” “all time” page :: i always have trouble finding this, so may as well tag it :: disappointing that so many commercial music videos dominate, but interesting still
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cosmo baker put together a 2-hr+ mix composed entirely of hip-hop posse cuts :: awesome!
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french dancehall/hip-hop video, hitting lots of contemporary signposts (and even softer targets)
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“As Raï Goes Global, Algerian Rap Attests to the Harsh Realities at Home”
le videyoga ::
musicologist, internet annotator, and rapper-ternt-blogger.
5 Comments Add your own
1. Birdseed | March 16th, 2008 at 4:39 am
Have I missed something radically huge, or can someone explain how that CSS video got a hundred million views + since I last checked that list back in December? I had no idea they were that popular!
2. wayneandwax | March 16th, 2008 at 8:07 am
yes, i was wondering about that too. working up a post on the topic. seems like a glitch/fluke of some sort.
3. Ty | March 16th, 2008 at 10:31 am
AARRGH, these COSMOPOLITAN HIPSTERS! listening to music that isn’t THEIRS.
This makes me almost as mad as when POOR PEOPLE listen to music made by RICH PEOPLE, or, worst of all, when WOMEN listen to music by MEN. AARRRGGHHH! Nobody respects anything anymore. I remember when black people were only allowed to listen to black music, those were the days.
Then Cumbia came along, the indigenous South Americans started stealing from the blacks, & they both stole from the Europoeans, that made me mad too.
4. wayneandwax | March 16th, 2008 at 10:57 am
thanks for adding to the contested narrative, ty! it’s a story that never gets old innit. but is that for good reason?
your sarcasm implies that any such concerns about “appropriation” are a lot of hoohaa. does that mean you disagree fairly strongly with the historical patterns traced out by my colleague in a previous post?
5. wayneandwax.com » Y&hellip | March 16th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
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