Herb, thank you for your reply. I got your point, and...
If you have questions about why Zorn chose a particular recording to be in this series rather than another, you'll have to ask him. If you want to know why Zorn picked those three words, you'll have to ask him.
... I just thought some of you guys know. Since there seems always to be someone on the list who knows such things. Many of you live in NY, many of you are active members of the scene, many of you know musicians on the RJC series in person, possibly even one of them being list member...
Any theory or analysis of what the phrase "really" means that doesn't explain the inclusion of all the discs in the series must, by definition, be wrong. The series is the practice being analyzed, not the name of the series.
We don't have to dig deeper into this, not only as it is non-Zorn-content. But just another 5 cent: If I don't have what you ironically refer to as a "theory of the real meaning" of a term you utter, your utterance is, with respect to its information content for me, white noise. The only way to make any sense of your practice (or Zorns practice of labelling a series RJC) is to relate terms I hear or read with a meaning I infer from prior successful uses of the same term. And if I'm unable to make sense of it I start to ask or to guess. That's what I did.
There are many disc in that series that I don't care for, and many that I don't think are particularly radical. There is some overlap between these two categories, though if I thought about it, I'm sure I could come up with several discs in the series that I liked but did not think were radical and vice versa.
Although I don't know more than a couple of discs of that series, that's what I've been thinking too.
Whether or not I think a particular recording in the series is "radical" based on my experience of other music I've heard, if its in the series, it's part of "Radical Jewish Culture." My sense of the words "radical" "Jewish" and "culture" is entirely irrelevant to the inclusion of any music that's in the series.
Thus the title of the series is entirely irrelevant to you since it could, without any loss in content, as well be "Some Kind of Interesting Music" or "&%§=\°"!", or even "Our Good Old Music from the Grand Old South" or "The Britney Spears Legacy". Or do you mean your (or my) sense of the resp. words is entirely irrelevant for Zorn's inclusion of any music in that series? That's certainly true ;-) Best, Fritz ############################################## Fritz Feger mail@fritzfeger.de www.fritzfeger.com ##############################################