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I agree that music exposure is important
Date: 2014-02-06 10:25 pm (UTC)Long and short, I think it's pretty awesome for kids to be able to encounter a lot of different media (music, video, etc.) and for them to be able to pick what they want more of, when they want more of it. And I'm currently enchanted with T.'s obsession with Chic's "Real People" and a couple of Bessie Smith songs, largely because they are so unexpected. Slamming stuff that kids like just strikes me as misguided, and attempting to professionalize or "fix" things is not as straightforward as advocates believe, and can do real artistic and aesthetic damage, not to mention reify some classist bullshit that just makes me tired to even think about.
ETA: I think he likes "Real People" for the super awesome guitar whine, which is heavy at the beginning and then sprinkled throughout.