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Month: December 2006

Godfathers of Soul

Godfathers of Soul

James Brown, President Gerald Ford, President Saddam Hussein. Individual legacies added/subtracted becoming collective history. Or Motown. Legacy of a city, but also legacy of a certain time in America that is no more. Cars and music. Once defining our individuality and freedom. Teenagers at lover’s lane. Get on up, like a sex machine. But now the SUV, especially the Hummer (No mere metaphor. Here it’s an SUV; over there it’s a war vehicle). Cars as emblem of our conspicuous consumption…

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