[Fwd: Re: Correction (long)]

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Owen Davidson wrote:
> 
> Thanks for that insight Lori!
> 
> Owen
> 
An insight wrapped in a self-serving, chauvinstic advertisement.

> Lori Lippitz (MaxwellSt (at) aol(dot)com) wrote:
> the
> > mystics teach that the yeitzer hara (the inclination to evil) is the driving
> > force of human nature--so we understand that the sexual urge can be either
> > base and animalistic or as holy as the original act of creation.  My problem
> > with pop rhythms for Jewish dance music is that they are associated with the
> > former--as you say, sex in a hedonistic society. 

This smacks of the  same argument put forth by racist Bible-thumpers in
the "Fifties in an attempt to suppres that "evil, N-word bop" and is
still being used by repressive, reactionary groups like the Taliban in
Afghanistan today.  

I cannot buy the argument that one set of musical rhythms (pop) can be
associated with  "base and animalistic" sex,  while another set (klezmer
dance music)  contains sexual rhythms "of a different kind", "holy". 

The music is either sexual or not.  What "kind" (of sex) is, to quote
the George Harrison character in Yellow Submarine,  "all in the head".

Down with musical eugenics!

Wolf
Darkendofthe St.