More Morrison hagiography. To be fair, it's hardly a big stretch for anyone involved in music at the time, and especially someone who, like Morrison, had affinities with the avant-garde. Musique concrète, Pierre Schaefer and others in the European avant garde had been around for 25 years at this point. Morrison's words would have been more prescient had he predicted that there would be a musical uprising on the part of underprivileged African American, Puerot Rican, and Jamaican immigrant youth, and that their innovations would someday change the face of popular music. And seriously, there were multi-turntable DJs working in New York within only a few years, not to mention in the gay club-scene at the time. While Morrison's comments certainly reveal that he may have been tuned in to the avant-garde (but apparantly only slightly, since he wouldn't have had to 'envision' but rather just go to a concert), they certainly don't warrant the implication that he was so in touch as to predict the future. And they certainly reveal that he was considerably out of touch when it came to the class origins and gendered origins of hip hop and house music.
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