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Re: [microsound] Call for Work: Queer Experimental Sound

Hi there,

I think this is becoming more and more ridiculous.

1. Do you know how ridiculous it is to have a problem with a call for
works focusing on a marginalized group when there is no point at all,
no point at all where you (presumably coming from a primarily
mainstream demographic) are excluded? Where is the call for exclusion?

2. Have you taken the time to actually do some research on the
organization that runs the festival? It's a non profit/501c3. They
have a mission, and it does not involve stopping you to submit your
art or whatever to them, for you to make donation, or to attend their
events. Discrimination is not part of their mission.

3. And now you are posting rap lyrics about the history of a racial
slur?!? Are you planning to get angry about race and rap and then
post some Klaus Nomi lyrics to clarify things? Where do you live (and
I ask this with the utmost sincerity, not as an insult)?

4. Would you reject the work of an artist because they exhibit "queer"
tendencies? or any tendency, for that matter, that did not conform to
your personal sense of what constitutes identity? What if you can't
choose your identity or what makes it up? Then what? Are these
questions that you have ever thought about?

Are you prepared to discard whole histories of music because they were
developed in a crucible of Gay culture? Are you prepared to forsake
all popular electronic music from the late sixties onwards? If not,
please think about your position, especially the gender
preference=identity is sad part. Regardless of whether or not it is
bigoted, it simply doesn't make any sense.

On 5/8/07, ph <ph@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 5/8/07 6:42 PM, "Xdugef" <info@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think the use of the word queer is the community owning it .. if you
> know what I mean.. I won't make comparisions to rappers... you dig.
>
> Ask your gay friends to explain it to you. ;-)
>
> AD


The Coup: I Ain't the Nigga lyrics

(Big Bird)
Now I shall tell a story that's filled with words
that start with the letter N
(DJ Pam cuts up "Fly lyrics from the bank of reality" --> Flavor Flav)
[Boots]
Step into the world of a nigger, figure
to stay a little while so pack your bag up bigger
First of all just let me introduce you seduce you
into a frame of mind that's easy to get used to
Nigger hasn't always meant a man with melanin
It used to be a piece of wood that sat on the cotton gin
Masta put it there and it wouldn't move, smooth
So what does it mean, to be a Nigger With an Attitude?
You tell me that a nigger's crazy or lazy
Not about the skin so, don't let it faze me
Well you amaze me, with that ignorant bizull-shizzit
Get a grip on the new fit
Cause that's a lame frame of brain for the nineties
I know the game so it don't sting, my mind sees
So what the fuck you wanna race for the trigger
I ain't the one, I ain't the nigga
"If I'm a slave, I'm a slave to the rhythm" --> Big Daddy Kane
"You know that I ain't the nigga" --> Ice Cube
(repeat 4X)
(DJ Pam cuts up "Niggers, love everything but themselves" --> Last Poets)
[E-Roc]
Nigger is a word we use today, you say
It don't mean the same if you spell it with an A
But that's an argument that makes me itch, I twitch
If I took the T out will I still mean bitch?
My name is E-Roc, and I ain't the nigger main
Save your sellout strut shit for Soul Train
Cause I've been known, to knock a motherfucker out
Without a doubt, The Coup gives me much clout
But there's a factor when I know that my skin is brown
And never ever will I put another brother down (gawwwd damn)
So I make the mental rule to massacre the word
Cause when I hear it, it gets, me straight stirred
It's mental trash so I'm pickin up the litter
I ain't the one and I ain't, the nigger
My people use this word each and every day
You see a nigger, slap a nigger, that's what I say
"If I'm a slave, I'm a slave to the rhythm" --> Big Daddy Kane
"You know that I ain't the nigga" --> Ice Cube
(repeat 4X)
(DJ Pam cuts up "Niggers, love everything but themselves" --> Last Poets)
"Boy I love playing the drums, I can do the grooviest rhythms
I can do rhythms like.."
[Boots]
My attitude is this (what?) don't call yourself a niggerole (why?)
Unless you're just an oakie-doke it'll make you sicker though
Cause it's all about a mind-time mind-frame
The system is a chess game with, pawns all the same (haa haa)
Until we change our mind to ?
Identify yourself, it's a part of being concious (yeah)
If I call myself a gangster then I'll rob you with a gat (yeah)
If I call myself a brother then you know I got your back (yeah)
If I call myself oppressed then I'm clear on where I'm at
But if I call myself a nigger what the fuck is that? (yeah, you know)
Don't be the coolie or the moolie or a boob with the jigger
Don't be the one... don't be the nigga
"If I'm a slave, I'm a slave to the rhythm" --> Big Daddy Kane
"You know that I ain't the nigga" --> Ice Cube
(repeat 4X)



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