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RE: [microsound] FOR DISCUSSION...
this is something we got onto discussing with Richard Middleton here in
newcastle.
In a seminar where the term post-vernacular started flying around, as a way of
talking about music with
an avant-garde type approach yet not working at the same bourgeoise level as
the historical avant-garde
movements which played upon the dualism between dirty popular and serious art
music, the term
popped up as a way of side-stepping these issues with strong historical
resonances.
The point was then made that the popular, of the people, has been hijacked and
perhaps should be
reclaimed rather than just running away from this term. clearly 'pop' music
has a certain aesthetic
meaning attached to it but why should people be deterred from defining their
music as popular?
>===== Original Message From Craque <craque@xxxxxxxxxx> =====
>It drives me crazy that popular music has actually become consumerist
>music.
>
>I think we should change the name.
>
>Pop music used to carry an entirely different connotation... I prefer
>to think of it as useful music for the community and 'popular' activity
>that brings society together over class boundaries. It was never the
>Popular Music that garnered a need for money, it used to be the other
>way around; 'Art Music' is where the big bucks were, especially in
>opera and theatre.
>
>Maybe if Capitialism is considered a popular activity that is
>pragmatically useful, the actualization of today's Pop Music makes
>sense (not to me, but probably to the 'Popular Majority'). Everything
>about Popular Music has become appropriated by the manipulation machine
>of the Music Industry. The elements of Pop Music are much more
>interesting to me than the categorization of it being Pop.
>
>On Mar 16, 2005, at 1:45 PM, Peter Price wrote:
>>
>> If the word "pop" is problematic it is perhaps because you are using
>> it problematically. Why can't we just agree that "pop" is short for
>> "popular" ;)
>
>
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