Sick of whiny hip-hop? ‘Ooooh, I don’t beloooong, I’m an ooooutcast’, they moan. In this one-minute-fortynine-seconds of radio, Craig Shuftan argues that all modern artist live on the fringe, but explains that it wasn’t always so.
These little packages are my favourite thing on triple j. You’re driving along, or doing the dishes or having a nap, and all of a sudden you’re thinking about the role of the artist in revolutionary France. You get to have an intellectual moment in the middle of your mundane day, a minute to remind yourself, ‘hey, I’ve got an awesome brain, maybe I should use it some time’.
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