RE: [microsound] death of monoculture

[barry cullen <dodgystereo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Regarding someone's case for "culture" and "individuals"

The four part documentary "The Century of the Self" by Adam Curtis may be of interest:
part 1
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8953172273825999151&hl=en
part 2
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-678466363224520614&hl=en
part3
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6111922724894802811&hl=en
part 4
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1122532358497501036&hl=en

It may be a little tangental - but a worthwhile watch, none the less.
Enjoy,

Barryc

dodgystereo.blogspot.com

> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:55:58 +0200
> From: jlarsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [microsound] death of monoculture
> 
> 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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