Re: RAT SUPERBOWL INTERVAL HIJINKS

["sharon mac menamin" <saoirse9@hotmail.com>]

And the "Brit Bashing" is just nonsensical and out of
>control.
>
>I'm all for roughing it up in the ring with the high art/ popular culture
>debate but hope this discussion can continue without derogatory reference 
>to
>national origins.


ummm, did i miss a posting or 2?

the CLOSEST i saw to any "brit bashing" was pplunk's postscript, which was 
prefaced with the disclaimer of a being a "knee jerk" reaction.

could someone please forward such postings to me @ the above adddress for my 
own personal perusal? much thanks.

sharon "saoirse" mac menamin


>From: SKuftinec@aol.com
>Reply-To: rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
>To: rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
>Subject: Re: RAT SUPERBOWL INTERVAL HIJINKS
>Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 17:06:51 EST
>
>I suppose I'll enter the fray/frey.  To equate opera with high culture is 
>not
>really historically accurate. Mozart wrote "popular operas" for performance
>outside of the palace. And if we expand a definition of "opera" to include
>theater that is musicalized that's about the only thing going on in late 
>17th
>c. England when legally only two theatres were allowed to produce 
>plays--led
>to enormous creativity and/or bastardization of Shakespeare texts depending
>on your point of view.
>
>There seems to be a kind of dangerous reverse elitism pervading this list.
>And I'm not sure whether all the hostility directed towards Lucie is 
>actually
>productive of intelligent (rather than intellectual) conversation. Must we
>rule out civility when engaging in ideas? Or is this just another perceived
>form of censorship? And the "Brit Bashing" is just nonsensical and out of
>control.
>
>I'm all for roughing it up in the ring with the high art/ popular culture
>debate but hope this discussion can continue without derogatory reference 
>to
>national origins.
>
>American Pop Culture Baby Of Slavic Descent
>
>
>In a message dated 2/2/00 9:14:49 PM, mego1911@gte.net writes:
>
><< was not aware of the big opera craze sweeping the nation (would seem the
>under 35 set has cought on to eliteism)...my point being that the lofty
>ideals of creating high art often leave one out of touch with the audience.
>  >>
>

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