Re: [microsound] death of monoculture

[Ken Restivo <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 04:24:05PM +0300, Marinos Koutsomichalis wrote:
>
> On 17 Αυγ 2008, at 4:15 ΜΜ, Damian Stewart wrote:
>
>> this is Christgau's point, though - within a monoculture, you can judge 
>> musical (popular) culture as 'what everybody is listening to'. my parents 
>> talk about when they were young, and how when certain new albums came out, 
>> it was true that everyone actually was listening to it. i'm jealous of 
>> them for this, because this is something that my generation has never 
>> really experienced in music.
>
> Well I did experienced this because when I grow up there was little or no 
> information about anything else that popular music... and if you want my 
> personal opinion it' s sth disgusting... I was very hard for me to seek and 
> discover certain things, and this was of course something I miss in the 
> internet era, but back at that time it was impossible to find a kind that 
> would listen to rock and disco music f.e.  No, there were, rockers, disco 
> fans, classical fans, etc, everybody was limited in a genre, just because 
> he didn' t have the opportunity to discover the others, mainly due to lack 
> of information.
>
> Probably our difference is that I don; t like pop culture generally (even 
> it regards mozart or beethoven, because yes I consider them popular music), 
> (don' t misunderstand me, I don' t like pop culture, not pop music). I don; 
> t think that what pop music implies is really able to connect all those 
> people. Furthermore I think it destroys individuality. I ' d prefer a 
> system were each of us could express himself in terms of his own self, 
> rather than in terms of "common" practice (well this needs some further 
> talking when talking about folk music)


	So check beneath your fingernails
	And in between your toes
	Right between your earlobes darling
	That's where culture grows
	It's breeding in your short and curlies
	Ready to expand
	From the heart of Poison City out over televisionland
	With a gun

http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/t/thomasdolby10872/pulpculture481772.html

-ken

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