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You have to pity a guy who thinks Steven Van Zandt showing up somewhere is too good to be true.

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You have to pity a guy who thinks Steven Van Zandt showing up somewhere is too good to be true.
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Jimmy Jazz wrote:
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You have to pity a guy who thinks Steven Van Zandt showing up somewhere is too good to be true.
This whole article is bizarre. I kind of pity everyone involved.
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I thought this was real interesting:
https://africasacountry.com/2014/01/whe ... n-mandela/
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eumaas wrote:
24 Apr 2018, 12:36pm
I thought this was real interesting:
https://africasacountry.com/2014/01/whe ... n-mandela/
As talented a musician and songwriter as Paul Simon is, the prevalence of stories about him being a colossal prick is pretty overwhelming.
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eumaas wrote:
24 Apr 2018, 12:36pm
I thought this was real interesting:
https://africasacountry.com/2014/01/whe ... n-mandela/
Super fascinating. I admittedly didn't know Graceland was at least partly recorded in S. Africa at that time.
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eumaas wrote:
24 Apr 2018, 12:36pm
I thought this was real interesting:
https://africasacountry.com/2014/01/whe ... n-mandela/
I obviously don't know enough about the situation, but I don't really understand how a "cultural boycott" works. It seems like it would have an adverse effect on black South Africans and that Graceland not only paid the performers (some even got songwriting credits), but it helped expose that culture to a larger audience (via a watered down white performer, sure, but still). I don't see how it perpetuated or exploited apartheid.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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matedog wrote:
24 Apr 2018, 6:34pm
eumaas wrote:
24 Apr 2018, 12:36pm
I thought this was real interesting:
https://africasacountry.com/2014/01/whe ... n-mandela/
I obviously don't know enough about the situation, but I don't really understand how a "cultural boycott" works. It seems like it would have an adverse effect on black South Africans and that Graceland not only paid the performers (some even got songwriting credits), but it helped expose that culture to a larger audience (via a watered down white performer, sure, but still). I don't see how it perpetuated or exploited apartheid.
That was the nut of the whole thing. It bound up opposition to a state system of oppression with everything within that state. It was well meaning but poorly laid out so that the boycott hurt the people it was meant to help.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
24 Apr 2018, 6:44pm
matedog wrote:
24 Apr 2018, 6:34pm
eumaas wrote:
24 Apr 2018, 12:36pm
I thought this was real interesting:
https://africasacountry.com/2014/01/whe ... n-mandela/
I obviously don't know enough about the situation, but I don't really understand how a "cultural boycott" works. It seems like it would have an adverse effect on black South Africans and that Graceland not only paid the performers (some even got songwriting credits), but it helped expose that culture to a larger audience (via a watered down white performer, sure, but still). I don't see how it perpetuated or exploited apartheid.
That was the nut of the whole thing. It bound up opposition to a state system of oppression with everything within that state. It was well meaning but poorly laid out so that the boycott hurt the people it was meant to help.
So Paul Simon was right and SVZ was wrong?
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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I’ve always had some sympathy for Simon on this issue but at the same time have to ask myself whether I’d feel that way if Graceland wasn’t such a beautiful and remarkable record. It May well have been fundamentally wrong, for all of Simons obviously good intentions, but the thing is I can’t see any material evidence of what harm it did while the good that came out of it is much easier to quantify. That’s the major dilemma about it I feel.

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matedog wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 12:27am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
24 Apr 2018, 6:44pm
matedog wrote:
24 Apr 2018, 6:34pm
eumaas wrote:
24 Apr 2018, 12:36pm
I thought this was real interesting:
https://africasacountry.com/2014/01/whe ... n-mandela/
I obviously don't know enough about the situation, but I don't really understand how a "cultural boycott" works. It seems like it would have an adverse effect on black South Africans and that Graceland not only paid the performers (some even got songwriting credits), but it helped expose that culture to a larger audience (via a watered down white performer, sure, but still). I don't see how it perpetuated or exploited apartheid.
That was the nut of the whole thing. It bound up opposition to a state system of oppression with everything within that state. It was well meaning but poorly laid out so that the boycott hurt the people it was meant to help.
So Paul Simon was right and SVZ was wrong?
In my understanding of things, yeah. But, complicating things, I've read claims by musicians that Simon was a credit hog on that album. Los Lobos played on one song and said they wrote the music, but Simon claimed full credit, denying them royalties.
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Low Down Low wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 3:39am
I’ve always had some sympathy for Simon on this issue but at the same time have to ask myself whether I’d feel that way if Graceland wasn’t such a beautiful and remarkable record. It May well have been fundamentally wrong, for all of Simons obviously good intentions, but the thing is I can’t see any material evidence of what harm it did while the good that came out of it is much easier to quantify. That’s the major dilemma about it I feel.
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matedog wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 12:27am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
24 Apr 2018, 6:44pm
matedog wrote:
24 Apr 2018, 6:34pm
eumaas wrote:
24 Apr 2018, 12:36pm
I thought this was real interesting:
https://africasacountry.com/2014/01/whe ... n-mandela/
I obviously don't know enough about the situation, but I don't really understand how a "cultural boycott" works. It seems like it would have an adverse effect on black South Africans and that Graceland not only paid the performers (some even got songwriting credits), but it helped expose that culture to a larger audience (via a watered down white performer, sure, but still). I don't see how it perpetuated or exploited apartheid.
That was the nut of the whole thing. It bound up opposition to a state system of oppression with everything within that state. It was well meaning but poorly laid out so that the boycott hurt the people it was meant to help.
So Paul Simon was right and SVZ was wrong?
Both were wrong, but Van Zandt was less wrong and involved in the ground, took pains to educate himself, and comes out of the situation with much more credibility. I really respect Little Stevie.
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Silent Majority wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 6:34am
Low Down Low wrote:
25 Apr 2018, 3:39am
I’ve always had some sympathy for Simon on this issue but at the same time have to ask myself whether I’d feel that way if Graceland wasn’t such a beautiful and remarkable record. It May well have been fundamentally wrong, for all of Simons obviously good intentions, but the thing is I can’t see any material evidence of what harm it did while the good that came out of it is much easier to quantify. That’s the major dilemma about it I feel.
Art Garfunkel's Never End Apartheid was only well received in very specialist quarters.
Art Garfunkel actually wrote some songs? Must check that out.

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