Fritz Feger <mail@fritzfeger.de> wrote:
Thank you all for the illuminating discussion on this! I must say that it leaves a slightly incoherent taste about the whole RJC thing. I second the argument that, if you label something like that, it would be naive to believe that it isn't read politically.
Sorry if this seems redundant. Looking at the aggregate of the 70 or so discs released in the RJC series of Tzadik, I think it's at least equally naive to ONLY read the term politically. Many of the works presented as RJC have no possible overt political content, so theorizing that the term is being used strictly in its political sense is absurd. If the range of what has been presented under the rubric of RJC is incoherent based on your understanding of the phrase, the fault really may be with how you're interpreting the phrase. If you try to reconcile your theory with the actual practice you're supposedly analyzing, you'll find a lot of practice that this particular theory fails to take into account. As Wittgenstein wrote, Look to the use. -- Herb Levy P O Box 9369 Fort Worth, TX 76147 herb@eskimo.com