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>===== Original Message From Sissoko13@aol.com =====quoted 1 line Can any one elaborate on futurism and how it relates to electornic music ?
>Can any one elaborate on futurism and how it relates to electornic music ?
Further to what has been said, Futurism (the movement in the 20s) was very
focused on masculinity, hardness and power, and has been repeatedly accused of
being both mysogynistic and fascistic. The only manifesto I read from a female
artist defending the cause explained how it was attacking the feminine in all
things, and that "feminine men" were as bad as "feminine women". Yeesh.
("Feminine" being defined by being emotional, irrational, therefore
weak-willed, etc)
IME, lots of people use "futurist" and "futuristic" equivelantly to describe
music, meaning something that sounds like it's from the future. Promoters at
least seem to have a habit of grabbing distinct words like these and mashing
them together to just connote something else again.
Along those lines, in my guise as Far-Too-Precious-For-My-Own-Good Man, I was
ever-so-vaguely offended when the promoter of a gig I played billed me as
playing "futurist beats". :-)
Michael
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