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Re: [microsound] death of monoculture
On 17 Αυγ 2008, at 3:56 ΜΜ, Damian Stewart wrote:
in my experience, culture has to do *fundamentally* with what you
hear having drinks in a nearby pub. more broadly speaking, your
culture comes from and is influenced by where you were born, were
you have lived, and where you live now: it's defined and maintained
by geography (both political and physical), which places you in
situations where you don't have a choice about the cultural
artifacts surrounding you.
Though I don' t think it's a matter of experience, I completely agree
with you. The point is though that if you don' t have choices then we
are talking about culture but about what the record companies what to
sell, or about who works in the radio...
Folk music, though popular is a culture, because it is formed, and
practiced as a collective activity, it is not "served". If we are
talking about a scene, about people listening and trying to
participate by playing to a particular kind of music, yea, this is a
culture, but this is choice. Of course not free from every society's
restrictions and influences, but it remains a choice, at least as
long as popular music is concerned