[FA Worldmusic] ROFLMAO!

[Jeff Kaliss]

Where the humor isn't righteous, it does nothing whatsoever for the group or 
world music in general. It's just like having your music recycled as 
overloaded monotonous hip-hop; it may get you out there, but in bad company.

Jeff Kaliss, Writer
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Bragin" <bbragin at publictheater.org>
To: "Jeff Kaliss" <jefkal at jeffkaliss.com>; "Ian Menzies" 
<ian at menziesmixedmedia.com>; "Mark D. Moss / Sing Out!" <mark at singout.org>
Cc: <fa-worldmusic at folk.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 10:09 AM
Subject: RE: [FA Worldmusic] ROFLMAO!


>I thought it was funny, more so because Ladysmith was actually in town that 
>week playinf at Carnegie, so there was a a moment of "could they really be 
>doing this?" and frankly, I was pleasd in some way that the group is still 
>enough in the mass public's consciousness that they could be referenced 
>like this, in a way that builds in part on the common image of them as a a 
>righteous group us the source of the humor.
>
> All the best,
> Bill Bragin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Jeff Kaliss" <jefkal at jeffkaliss.com>
> To: "Ian Menzies" <ian at menziesmixedmedia.com>; "Mark D. Moss / Sing Out!" 
> <mark at singout.org>
> Cc: "fa-worldmusic at folk.org" <fa-worldmusic at folk.org>
> Sent: 10/22/2006 12:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [FA Worldmusic] ROFLMAO!
>
> What I'm easily offended by here is the co-optation of a decent world 
> music
> act (which I've interviewed and written about) in the name of the same
> uncreative, mean-spirited humor which gluts most of our media and weakens
> our kids' cultural integrity.
>
> Jeff Kaliss, Writer
> Music, Culture & Other Entertaining Things
> 230 Hazelwood Avenue
> San Francisco, California                   94127 U.S.A
> Phone: (415) 585-8844    jefkal at jeffkaliss.com
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mark D. Moss / Sing Out!" <mark at singout.org>
> To: "Ian Menzies" <ian at menziesmixedmedia.com>
> Cc: <fa-worldmusic at folk.org>
> Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 8:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [FA Worldmusic] ROFLMAO!
>
>
>> At 12:44 AM 10/22/2006, Ian Menzies wrote:
>>>Ladysmith Black Mombazo and Triumph the Insult Dog....trust me - this is 
>>>a
>>>must see (that is unless you are easily offended)
>>>
>>>http://tinyurl.com/y25yad
>>
>> Hilarious ... but, just to keep the record straight for anyone who
>> doesn't make it to the end of the clip, not really LBM. (Who knew
>> there was a market for LBM impersonators?)
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