Only these sheep don't even realize that they are sheep. They still think they are "free"!

Once upon a time the media filled the trough with Broadside Ballads and other truly popular songs which have since been reimagined as Folk on account of the extent to which the sheep absorbed them into their culture. Same is true of all Popular Idioms - even Folk if it wasn't for the autistic righteousness that invariably attends it. Music lives & breathes - it does what it does; listen & rejoice.

Doo-Wop derives from Gospel Quartet, leading to R & B and other MOBOs; Zappa celebrated this in terms of pure folklore and Sun Ra was field-recording it Chicago in the 50s and writing songs to suit. Rap was always part of the vernacular narrative scheme and long may it remain so. Tell 'em, about it Tyrone!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6qbSHKzcmI

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As for noisy car music, the other day our neighbourhood peace was shattered by booming hip-hop / R&B from a car that pulled up outside our house. Needless to say it was just my darling wife coming home from work, clearing her head after an arduous day with Flight of the Conchords' There's too many mutha uckas uckin' with my shi-