Bodoni fan club

Friday 26 July 2002

Things you find on the net: On the website freie.klasse.de [Forum für Kunst und Kommunikation] is this page with links to something called Bodoni rap in streaming audio, in two versions — street mix and a capella. I find rap lyrics in English hard to follow, and my German is very rusty.

I sense this is a song about the heroic deeds of Giambattista Bodoni, official printer in the court of Parma from 1768. I admire what Bodoni did for typography, but he’s a weird subject for rap. And in German — that’s extra weird. Sprechen Sie Deutsche? Please tell me, is this what’s going on here?

filed under Typography

Fiona commented on 26 July 2002

Rap. Silly in anyone's language. Even the cats are appalled.

Peter Marquis-Kyle commented on 26 July 2002

So, did the cats find a capella or street mix more appalling?

Fiona commented on 28 July 2002

The cats did not discriminate.
Anne, on the other hand, got down, got good and jiggy in fact, to the street mix. Frankly I found myself vaguely perturbed.

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