do you need to be well-versed in dance music to 'get' grime?
or do you have to be well versed or 'qualified' in dance culture/music/history etc to understand its context, its place in british dance lineage, and to basically critique it properly?
if you come from other musics, like hip hop or dancehall, does it prevent you from fully appreciating certain signifiers, developments, references and other various minutae in the music? should you need to know those things TO enjoy it? if i didnt know all this backstory/history, would it affect the impact of the music?
basically, im not a dance head or a 'raveist' like most of the people on this board seem to be (although i have done a lot of catching up and always paid attention to what was happening in D&B/UKG etc, i just never really dove into them headfirst as i was into other stuff), so am i missing out on vital details/context?
does the fact i wasnt a huge dance fan during the 90s at the time (dis)colour how i appreciate/enjoy/critique grime? does it disqualify me from evaluating it properly? if youre someone who never really paid attention to hip hop or dancehall, does that mean youre missing something in your 'reading' of grime as well?
or do you have to be well versed or 'qualified' in dance culture/music/history etc to understand its context, its place in british dance lineage, and to basically critique it properly?
if you come from other musics, like hip hop or dancehall, does it prevent you from fully appreciating certain signifiers, developments, references and other various minutae in the music? should you need to know those things TO enjoy it? if i didnt know all this backstory/history, would it affect the impact of the music?
basically, im not a dance head or a 'raveist' like most of the people on this board seem to be (although i have done a lot of catching up and always paid attention to what was happening in D&B/UKG etc, i just never really dove into them headfirst as i was into other stuff), so am i missing out on vital details/context?
does the fact i wasnt a huge dance fan during the 90s at the time (dis)colour how i appreciate/enjoy/critique grime? does it disqualify me from evaluating it properly? if youre someone who never really paid attention to hip hop or dancehall, does that mean youre missing something in your 'reading' of grime as well?
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