>Bob Dylan brought the folks asthetic to rock/pop music....in >my book that makes him a pioneer....he wasn't the first, he >wasn't the best...but he did bring folk to the dinner >table... >
perhaps it make him a pioneer of the folk aesthetic in rock/pop, but it sure as hell doesn't make him a pioneer in FOLK MUSIC. that's like saying that because Elvis was one of the first people to bring Afro-American rhythms into the living rooms of white America, that means he was a pioneer in R&B.
un-muddy your reasoning.
>sugar hill gang weren't the first..they weren't the >best...but their song broght rap/hip hop into the popular >culture...so they were a pioneer.... >
they were pioneers because they actually did something before anybody else: cut a rap record. (yeah, yeah, yeah… the Fatback Band's "king tim III (personality jock)" was kinda lame, so I aint even gonna talk about it). they were pioneers in hip-hop as a recorded form, but that doesn't change the fact that they weren't out in the park in the Bronx back in 1972.
>being a pioneer doesn't have to mean the first..or the >best...they pioneered into an area where their particular >genre either hadn't been before...or hadn't garnered the >respect.
un-muddy your reasoning.
>and are you serious that you've never heard the term >>"neo-classicist" before? > >I have selective hearing when it comes to these >hyper-syllabled terms....I just don't hear them...I'm more >into direct and specific categorizing without >limiting....