New Orleans Adult Entertainment: What’s about Jacko
July 8, 2009
Votaries
of world culture might demur, but one could still ask the question as to why the
death of a western pop star would merit blazing front page space in almost every
English newspaper in the country. Just what was it about Michael Jackson? Given
that far greater musicians have come and gone with not so big a mention in their
passing, and the fact that it is still a matter of debate whether Jackson was a
musician at all, the question becomes, as Alice said in wonderland,
‘curioser and curioser’. There is, in western popular culture, a
certain political context, a background that informs major musical epochs. The
Blues for instance, the font of all of American genres of popular music, was
basically about blacks, their history and predicament. Jazz, now elevated to the
level of a veritable art form, or ‘serious’ music, was basically
brothel music. The music that accompanied the activities in the black brothels
in New Orleans, to be pre …
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