RE: [microsound] machine soul: oxymoron?

[Philip Sherburne <philip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, now I'm just going to be mean, because it's early and I haven't had
enough coffee yet.  A search on Goldberg's other work at Salon turns up this
recent gem:


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Philip Sherburne [SMTP:philip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Wednesday, March 15, 2000 8:20 AM
> To:	'microsound'
> Subject:	RE: [microsound] machine soul: oxymoron?
> 
> *sigh*.  
> I'm so very tired of Salon -- they've always gotta work an angle.
> Muckraking is good and alive, thank the lord.
> So what do we have in this article? 
> The misconception that "rave" = "electronic dance music"
> The setting up of a straw man -- "rave" purported to be revolutionary, but
> look!  it failed, therefore is a bankrupt medium (all you techno musicians
> on the list please take note:  you might as well just give it up now)
> The complete and total exclusion of the possibility that FORM counts for
> anything
> 
> What's Golberg's usual slant?  She's a familiar name, but somehow I feel
> like she usually writes pieces on mainstream electronic musicians.  In
> fact,
> I'm pretty sure that's her forte.
> 
> Reminds me of Michiko Kakutani's column from the NY Times Magazine a few
> years back, when "electronica" and the Chem Bros had their big boom; she
> accused it of being "cold" and "antihumanist."  A pretty hilarious
> article,
> really.  Goldberg doesn't exactly fall into the same trap, but her
> reasoning
> seems just as specious...
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	anechoic [SMTP:kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent:	Wednesday, March 15, 2000 8:08 AM
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> > Subject:	[microsound] machine soul: oxymoron?
> > 
> > http://www.salon.com/ent/music/feature/2000/03/14/machinesoul/index.html
> > 
> > 
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