A nightclub has been ordered to close after a man was blasted in the leg with a shotgun.
The man, understood to be either a doorman or his friend, was attacked outside Thread, in Yeoman Street, Leicester city centre, early yesterday.Hmmm....
Soul? Easy listening? A little country and western, maybe?
The venue, formerly Houston's, was hosting a hip hop, R'n'B and house event called the Boxing Day Banger.Ah. Of course.
One of the funniest ever mock headlines:
ReplyDelete"no-one shot at rap awards ceremony".
The conservative feminist writer Tammy Bruce in her book 'The Death of Right and Wrong' states that when hip hop and rap became popular, (and was heavily marketed to) Black Americans, the number of black American boys who read for pleasure dropped. The anti intellectual, anti hard work, anti earned success gangsta ethic of Rap and Hip Hop, decimated many US inner cities.
ReplyDeleteHip Hop and rap are genres devoid of inner morality, more so than any other type of music.
Same at any Fairport Convention gig!
ReplyDeleteAnon, I doubt it.
ReplyDeletethe number of black American boys who read for pleasure dropped
ReplyDeleteWas there ever any evidence that many did? Moreover, did their parents not seek to teach them the error of their ways?
What happened to all the white boys exposed to the horror of glam and the New Romantics?
As for Tammy Bruce, she should get back onto solids, if you know what I mean.
Glam and new romantic music did't have the sort of 'anti achievement' ethos a lot of rap has. The figures Tammy quoted are from Prof Ronald Ferguson of Harvard who said that there was a sharp drop in reading and maths scored between 88 and 90. The reading for pleasure score dropped from 40 to 14 percent.
ReplyDeleteThese figures coincided with the growth of rap, especially the violent and misogynistic kind. The drop in figures is too sharp for there not to be a correlation.
"One of the funniest ever mock headlines:
ReplyDelete"no-one shot at rap awards ceremony"."
:D
"Was there ever any evidence that many did?"
I wondered at that.
"The drop in figures is too sharp for there not to be a correlation. "
But correlation isn't causation. There were other social changes that happened around that time.
Agreed that there were other changes that may have influenced the reading figures, the rise in popularity of Crack Cocaine for example, but the primary cultural change that was aimed at this particular demographic was rap and hip hop, especially the violent and misogynistic kind.
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