Re: [microsound] Re: Alternative performance devices

[vze26m98 <vze26m98@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/30/03 at 2:38 PM, Michael Arnold Mages <marnoldm@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Miles may have said that he didn't care what the audience
> thought, but he obviously did, because he was _there_, at the
> gig, and not at home in his living room.

Miles didn't SAY anything about the audience. What I said was that in
his performances he refused "to acknowlege the audience and their
appreciation." I'd go so far as to say that he presaged, in his stage
presence, the Black persona ultimately articulated by nationalists like
H. Rap Brown some 10 years later.

If he'd stayed home, the audience would just assumed he was a heroin
addict like the rest of his band. On stage, he was remodeling the
audience's expectation that their appreciation would rewarded with the
smile of negritude.

Which gets right to the heart of what you and Trace are articulating,
no?

> But I do question the value of the celebrity performer as
> manufactured by the entertainment megalopolists.

What are you questioning about it? It seems as though the celebrity
performer is valuable as entertainment. Isn't their a distinction
between entertainment and art?

> There is far too much desire to "sex it up" with lots of
> discussion about the poststructuralist foundations of the
> computational language that was founded as a result of hegemony
> of the interplanetary hoosegow.

I'd be concerned that this type of parody is limiting your insight into
the conditions under which musical artists perform...

Best,

Tad

<tad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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