Understanding Popular Culture

I don't think I've been so disturbed by a textbook. This is my Music 103 text, and so far all it is, is a bunch of mindless prattle, with references to other (and probably much better) authors and sources. I hate it already, and I'm not even through the first chapter! Let me give you a sneak peak at the inanity that is my text:

On pages 13-14, Shuker uses an example which I, personally, find rather offensive and ...well not politically correct, we'll say:

"For example, a piece of 'gansta' rap music by Ice-T will be received very differently by an inner-city ghetto young black male..., and a middle class suburban white woman. The woman would probably find the idiom itself 'boring', its sexism offensive, and its 'blackness' threatening. For the black youth, however, the music would speak to his general economic experience of powerlessness, while asserting his black masculinity and perceived gender superiority within his ethnic group."

I'm sorry, but that was the worst example I've ever read. Seriously, I'm sure he could have found a less offensive (and less racist, in my opinion) example.

Moving right along to page 18:

"Allan Bloom argued that rock music presents life as 'a non-stop commercial prepackaged masturbational fantasy', which he charges as responsible for the atrophy of the minds and bodies of youth"

Okay, really don't think that quote was neccessary, do you? I don't even want to read the rest. But I have to, because my disorganized, random-thought spewing proffessor is making me. NOT impressed by this class. Avoid like the plague.

In my Econ 281 class yesturday, this guy came strutting (I kid you not, actually doing a 'gangsta', if I may borrow from Shuker, strut) into class with his little 2 person posse a half hour late (in a 50 min class, no less), walked in front of the prof, and looked around at the class like "ya, that's right, I'm late, what of it, I'm cool", before eventually finding his seat. Nicely done asshole, we all know you think you're cool. Next time, why don't you make us think you're even more cool by not showing up? At least you won't interupt my doodling.

I'm in a bad mood.