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Originally Posted by Shady McGough
There is nowhere in town where you can buy a copy of a Shakespere play, a classical, opera or Jazz CD.
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The Shakespeare point I agree with - decent literature is hard to come by around here. Shelley? Keates? The library isn't exactly an Aladdins cave.
However the musical point comes across a little snobby to me.
Opera is always associated with the higher classes and/or the intellectual - why? Just because someone prefers to mong out to Massive Attack or The Prodigy's Smack My Bitch Up; they are deemed as socially inadequate. Jazz is the last refuge of a failing musician in my opinion - yet is deemed by the higher stati as 'genuine' music...baffling.
As for the other points - I believe Accrington is full of very charming people with features that make this small town so full of character. I do not mean to belittle it - I think the town has many qualities which you will fail to find in any perhaps more 'intellectual' place; which comparitively may come across as bland. To many it may be seen as obscure - however I see Accrington as a muse for the future poets & those interested in social literature amongst us. For me anyway.
I've always believed that it is the people that make this town what it is - not the institutions (granted - some of the people should
be in institutions
)