Well said Philip! and I'll have more comments for you, once I struggle through
your xx,0000 word piece on "microhouse".... ;)
-i
--- Philip Sherburne <psherburne@jeevessolutions.com> wrote:
quoted 44 lines Regardless of all that, in an age where I can at least
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> >Regardless of all that, in an age where I can at least
> >try to sample the music before I buy it (MP3s, legit
> >RealAudio, whatever), reviewers are just not that
> >important to me at all. Sorry.
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> See, this kind of attitude -- and I'm not coming after you, Adam --
> indicates a real problem with the market orientation of "the music industry"
> and listeners' relationship with it. Maybe it's just my background in
> academia (dropped out of grad school, which makes me a failed academic,
> rather than failed rock star or novelist!), but I believe that good music
> criticism should be precisely that, a critical analysis that attempts to say
> something about what the music *does*, not just who it sounds like and
> whether or not it's worth buying. Now, obviously, that's a lot easier to
> accomplish when you've got 500+ words and a publication that's open to that
> philosophy, as opposed to a 75 word blurb. But I think that our culture
> suffers in general from this problem -- we've given up making meaning on our
> own, and have become simply consumers. Listen to most people talk about the
> movies they've seen -- reaction almost invariably comes down to "I liked it"
> or "I didn't like it," not, "That was interesting because A, B, and C, and
> while I felt that D was a bit of a hackneyed point and the director could
> have handled E in a more original way..." etc.
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> Matthew Herbert has described his last album as being about the "failed
> relationships" that define our culture -- he typically discusses the
> relationship between consumers and corporations, or between citizens &
> people in power. But I'm beginning to see the way that the relationship
> between a *consumer* of a cultural product (record, movie, etc.) and its
> producer (whether artist or record company) is a failed relationship in the
> same way. Because the product fails to become the catalyst for engagement or
> further creativity; it's just another product.
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> Cheers (or not)
> Philip
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