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Alternate take: rap has eaten poetry and poets

• germinalphrase 3y ago
  That is certainly true, yes.
• vonnik 3y ago
  I kind of agree about rap, and more agree about mass media. More broadly I'd say popular music has eaten poetry. The ballads all got instrumental tracks. Maybe poetry faded because broadcasting became easier. High-bandwidth information beat out low-bandwidth information, because it concentrated more stimuli in a single medium.