On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
i'm not discussing politics or sociology (certainly not on this ML). in the musical/cultural realm, this claim is really hard to justify. what did it take the minimalists or the punks or even the prog rockers to reject twelve tone atonal serialism, prog rock and 3 chord C-major common time party music? almost nothing except a committment to their own visions and a lot of hard work. and even wierder? the establishment barely even fought back.
and this is even more true when its no longer necessary to convince a record label or TV network or radio station manager that you're the shiznit.
The problem is that we have a select group/monopoly attempting to tell us
what the rules are and forcing them on us at every opportunity. A curious
side process is this same group often break their own rules to maintain
their monopoly over telling us what the rules are.
i'm not discussing politics or sociology (certainly not on this ML). in the musical/cultural realm, this claim is really hard to justify. what did it take the minimalists or the punks or even the prog rockers to reject twelve tone atonal serialism, prog rock and 3 chord C-major common time party music? almost nothing except a committment to their own visions and a lot of hard work. and even wierder? the establishment barely even fought back.
and this is even more true when its no longer necessary to convince a record label or TV network or radio station manager that you're the shiznit.
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