Re: [microsound] death of monoculture

[Jan Larsson <jlarsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

But there are other monocultures beside the commercial ones. You have
the whole academic world where music composition is controlled by
grants (and their commmitées).

I am not so sure doing a Kylie Minogue cover is so much worse than
pretending to be a local Lachenmann. Between those two I sure as hell
would have more fun dressing up like Kylie :-)


2008/8/19, Shannon Oram <shannonoram@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Well I wouldn't like anyone having absolute power to decide what material we
> see. It's bad enough already.
>
>  I don't get your point about youtube. Who watches a stream of recent
> uploads?
>
>  IMO it's still a bit early to be proclaiming the "death of monoculture"
> anyway. Last time I turned on the radio, there were plenty of stations
> playing the same old crap.
>
>  What irks me is that a radio station playing a continuous stream of pop
> hits + promotion tie-ins + advertising can even pass for a "shared
> experience".
>
>  If monoculture does die, it will only be the death of a business model.
>
>
>
>
>
>  Xdugef wrote:
>  > Right but then who is granted the power to decide who 's material we do
> see if it's
>  not those who advertise?
>
> > And for example when it's a free for all you end up with youtube ..
> >
>  which personally I like because I can find stuff I want to look at but if
>  you had to watch a stream of recent uploads it'd be pretty annoying, low
>  quality and I think I might just prefer to watch commercials.
>
> > The only fair power structure is the one where you get to
> >
>  choose what you watch.. therefor monoculture becomes about you not about
> them. ;-)
>
>
>
> >
> >
> > --- On Mon, 8/18/08, Shannon Oram <shannonoram@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Coca-Cola, Nike, etc, is a part of my culture, but IMO only
> > > because they've bought their way in. The cultural content they
> > > bring is generated only to increase shareholder profits. This
> > > isn't a problem until they begin to drown-out locally generated culture.
> I
> > > don't want to live in a community in which the only "shared
> > > experience" is the advertising material we view on the way to work.
> > >
> > > /end rant. ;)
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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