1st comment and 800th subscriber. ... ALSO, you're completely spot-on on the class structures of today's music space and experience. Thanks for sharing!
Just enjoy it (if it moves you) or don't (if it doesn't). I'm at the age where I don't care what other people think! I listen to anything from Pink Floyd to the new Kylie album which I think is uplifting and brilliant
So you have some interesting ideas. But I would suggest that the neo-leftist critique of culture doesn't take in enough of the facts. I do agree with you that the omnivore is indeed a new elitism. When I was the program director at a radio station a few years back I would ask prospective DJs, What kind of music do you like? Most often they would answer, Everything. To which I would then reply Metal, Country, EDM? Invariably they would dislike at least one of these genres. I would then say, So please don't say everything. The omnivore invariably turns out to have a shallow understanding of the music they say they like. And there are technological reasons for the existence of omnivore. One key, among others, has been the downloading or sharing of files. This, more than anything else, has created the omnivore, especially given the fact that people aren't willing to spend proportionally as much on music as they used to. I live in a country now where every university student is an omnivore and physical product no longer exists. I would also argue that for much of the last 20 years Diva Pop has indeed been hegemonic. White male privilege doesn't count for much anymore. Poptism has won. There are no more great new rock artists. Rock, like jazz, is now a niche taste. Given the way cultural issues have been going I expect that much of rock's macho past is going to wind up cancelled. By the way I appreciated your quick breakdown of rockism and poptism. If you don't mind I would like to use that section in my history of How We Got Here. I will mention your channel when I do. And if you'd prefer I don't use it reply to this very soon. Thanks.
I appreciate your review but when you go into your "How have things changed since Bourdieu?" lecture; you ultimately look at popular commercial music in the Anglo world. Bourdieu would have focused on the Pulitzer prize winning musicians, whats happening in the Paris Conservatoire, the Lucerne Festival, etc....I dont think he would say that Lou Reed is the new Bach. In fact, if anything, Bach's legacy has endured immensely and he is played more today than he was in the 1960s.
6:10 How can you explain then that Jazz or complex Funk (Funkadelic, Stevier Wonder), which is music originated by black american culture, are consider far superior musicaly to Elvis, The Beatles or Nirvana, which are all white? I think the issue is a bit more complex to explain that only using marxist theory.
1st comment and 800th subscriber.
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ALSO, you're completely spot-on on the class structures of today's music space and experience. Thanks for sharing!
This is brilliant, thank you ever so much for sharing.
Just enjoy it (if it moves you) or don't (if it doesn't). I'm at the age where I don't care what other people think! I listen to anything from Pink Floyd to the new Kylie album which I think is uplifting and brilliant
So you have some interesting ideas. But I would suggest that the neo-leftist critique of culture doesn't take in enough of the facts. I do agree with you that the omnivore is indeed a new elitism. When I was the program director at a radio station a few years back I would ask prospective DJs, What kind of music do you like? Most often they would answer, Everything. To which I would then reply Metal, Country, EDM? Invariably they would dislike at least one of these genres. I would then say, So please don't say everything. The omnivore invariably turns out to have a shallow understanding of the music they say they like.
And there are technological reasons for the existence of omnivore. One key, among others, has been the downloading or sharing of files. This, more than anything else, has created the omnivore, especially given the fact that people aren't willing to spend proportionally as much on music as they used to. I live in a country now where every university student is an omnivore and physical product no longer exists.
I would also argue that for much of the last 20 years Diva Pop has indeed been hegemonic. White male privilege doesn't count for much anymore. Poptism has won. There are no more great new rock artists. Rock, like jazz, is now a niche taste. Given the way cultural issues have been going I expect that much of rock's macho past is going to wind up cancelled.
By the way I appreciated your quick breakdown of rockism and poptism. If you don't mind I would like to use that section in my history of How We Got Here. I will mention your channel when I do. And if you'd prefer I don't use it reply to this very soon. Thanks.
I appreciate your review but when you go into your "How have things changed since Bourdieu?" lecture; you ultimately look at popular commercial music in the Anglo world. Bourdieu would have focused on the Pulitzer prize winning musicians, whats happening in the Paris Conservatoire, the Lucerne Festival, etc....I dont think he would say that Lou Reed is the new Bach. In fact, if anything, Bach's legacy has endured immensely and he is played more today than he was in the 1960s.
6:10 How can you explain then that Jazz or complex Funk (Funkadelic, Stevier Wonder), which is music originated by black american culture, are consider far superior musicaly to Elvis, The Beatles or Nirvana, which are all white?
I think the issue is a bit more complex to explain that only using marxist theory.
You are right. It is much more complex.
If you like everything, you don't really like anything.
"music of white males", you mean like Jimi Hendrix and Santana?