Sunday, May 18, 2008

Бардовской хип-хоп

The last time I was in Moscow I had the pleasure of accompanying a friend to a hiphop concert. Little did I know that the concert was actually only half hiphop, and that the other half would be devoted to "authorial" or "bardic" song, which is the genre I study. The emcee for the evening explained at the start of the show that authorial song and hiphop were "twin brothers -- two forms, one content."

This was more than a little astonishing to me because, despite their shared focus on narrative, many people would say that there are no two genres that are more different than bardovskaya pesnya and hiphop. Indeed, even I had my doubts... until I saw this:

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Здравствуйте! Я новый посетитель блога.
У вас здесь хорошо блоге.

BH said...

Спасибо вам, Sean! Ваш блог тоже очень хороший и интересный. Ясно что, вы вправду "xenophile", потому что вы говорите по-русски, по-английски, и по-тайски...и ещё?!?!