Λίστες, ληστές, καπιταλιστές

Δύο όμορφα πράγματα που διάβασα σήμερα και θέλω να τα μοιραστώ με όποιον τύχει να περάσει απεδώ...
Γράφει μεταξύ άλλων ο -νομίζω αρκετά- γνωστός μουσικογραφιάς Simon Reynolds:

The fragmentation of rock/pop has been going on as long as I can remember, but it seemed to cross a threshold this decade. There was just so much music to be into and check out. No genres faded away, they all just carried on, pumping out product, proliferating offshoot sounds. Nor did musicians, seemingly, cease and desist as they grew older; those that didn't die kept churning stuff out, jostling alongside younger artists thrusting forward to the light. It's tempting to compare noughties music to a garden choked with weeds. Except it's more like a flower bed choked with too many flowers, because so much of the output was good. The problem wasn't just quantity, it was quantity x quality.

Και συμπληρωματικό ανάγνωσμα, απ' το Pop Matters:

The future of recorded music, I hope, belongs to microcommunities, small groups of friends who determine their own standards of importance (through listening rituals, what they play for each other in everyday life) and share them internally without needing to promote those standards online and proselytize. For these communities, it is all “best-of,” anything that is heard and remembered, that helps the group cohere, matters. Whether it had been released that year, or decade, or was promoted by the music industry or was a demo from a busker, or whatever, won’t matter. Taste can potentially be deindustrialized, and the critics will disappear into the multitude of voices.


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