Comparing Ellington to Jay Z is as dumb as comparing Gershwin to Philip Roth.
Joseph Epstein on “black culture,” in The Weekly Standard, the (comparably) sanest conservative magazine. http://www.weeklystandard.com/chicago-then-and-now/article/2011701 …pic.twitter.com/tlVkdY5Ipj
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tirades! TIRADES
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There’s also the part about his family maid dying in his home, and something about a bordello?
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Stop already! I can't take this madness.
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He could, you know, engage with the culture. The WSJ, of all places, traced the development in rhythm and rhyme in Hamilton through its influences from black culture. http://graphics.wsj.com/hamilton/ It's like "black culture for white guys."
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If you can put Ta-Nehisi Coats and "tirade" in the same sentence, you haven't actually read Ta-Nehisi Coats.
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"Few people are likely to note any valuable advances in white culture over the past 60 years. Compare Carole King to Taylor Swift, or the brilliant essays of the young Henry. . ."
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William Faulkner to Larry the Cable Guy
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