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Vibe: Hard to Let it GoNegritude 2.0[5 March 2007] by Mark ReynoldsVibe once nailed down the sweet spot between hip-hop swagger and Madison Avenue polish. But no longer needing to prove hip-hop’s worth to the broader audience, it morphed into a gooey valentine to hip-hop’s ghetto fabulousness.
Excellent article. I think it’s a symptom of print music magazines that they can’t cover the whole time continuum of the past, present and future well (except maybe MOJO). Comment by Jason Gross — March 12, 2007 @ 11:16 am Negritude 2.0
Retelling the History of Black Music: Everything You Know about the Blues Is WrongMark Reynolds03.Jul.08 For the most part, blacks were not involved in the heroic work of rescuing the black acoustic blues legacy from the passage of time. 
Retelling the History of Black Music: Adventures in Retro-ismMark Reynolds07.Mar.08 Rightly or wrongly, black audiences have always tended to chase musical innovation, not musical reverence. 
Ask an AfricanMark Reynolds11.Jan.08 Africa will play an increasingly pivotal role in world affairs this year, and not just because a guy whose dad was Kenyan is running for President of the United States.
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By George Reisch and Norah Martin [16.Jul.08] Negritude 2.0: Retelling the History of Black Music: Everything You Know about the Blues Is Wrong
By Mark Reynolds [3.Jul.08] Variations on a Theme: The Sounds of Now: Tristan Murail and Sounding Stasis
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Hip-hop is no better or worse, and no more or less important, than any other music genre. Depending on how broad your definitions are (and all musical genre definitions are in constant flux) it may be the biggest, but in terms of collective aesthetic quality and societal significance, it’s just another branch on the American entertainment tree. So to bemoan the quality of a hip-hop magazine as though it should ever have been “more” than any other music magazine, be it Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll, Alternative Press or Metal Maniacs, is foolish and says more about the author’s personal taste than about “the state of the culture” or anything else.
Comment by pdf — March 5, 2007 @ 2:59 pm