Hi, At the risk of also sounding redundant, I'd like to point out that I have never read the RJC Series in political terms nor have I come to that conclusion after reading any of the e-mails sent to the list in that regard. I think there has been some kind of misunderstanding along the way. What I'm really questioning is the radicality of the music there, which isn't that obvious. That understood (and probably agreed by most of the people here), what I'm wondering is what the term "Radical" is really applied to. The music? Anyone with a bit of common sense will hardly find something really radical in those 70 plus releases. There's also the possibility that Zorn thinks that the general tone of those releases is radical in some way or another. I can't share his opinion, though. If the author of "Locus Solus", "Execution Ground" and "The Classic Guide to Strategy" finds Erik Friedlander, Jenny Scheinmann or Sephardic Tinge radical, then I must be missing something. Furthermore, I'm also wondering why someone who puts denominations like that to a music series in which many musicians publish their work isn't clear about his motivations to choose those terms. New Japan is clear, Composer Series is really clear, Radical Jewish Culture might be more controversial. Put simply: If you choose the image of a cut-off head on a plate for one of your album covers, do you really think nobody will ask why? Although different examples, I think that the same applies to RJC. All the best, Efrén del Valle Sorry if this seems redundant. Looking at the aggregate of the 70 or so discs released in the RJC series of Tzadik, I think it's at least equally naive to ONLY read the term politically. Many of the works presented as RJC have no possible overt political content, so theorizing that the term is being used strictly in its political sense is absurd. If the range of what has been presented under the rubric of RJC is incoherent based on your understanding of the phrase, the fault really may be with how you're interpreting the phrase. If you try to reconcile your theory with the actual practice you're supposedly analyzing, you'll find a lot of practice that this particular theory fails to take into account. As Wittgenstein wrote, Look to the use. -- Herb Levy P O Box 9369 Fort Worth, TX 76147 herb@eskimo.com ___________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sorteos Consulta si tu número ha sido premiado en Yahoo! Sorteos http://loteria.yahoo.es