"Any kind of popular trend is infinitely more wholesome than listening to old records. It's more important that people know that some kind of pleasure can be derived from things that are around them - rather than to catalogue more stuff - you can do that forever"- HARRY SMITH ........................"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may / Old Time is still a-flying / And this same flower that smiles today/Tomorrow will be dying"-ROBERT HERRICK
Thursday, February 18, 2016
drowning in the sea of sound
At The New York Times, a review by me of a book by Ben Ratliff - Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in An Age of Musical Plenty - that I found very interesting but also disagreed with quite a bit. It proposes ways to navigate the music overload / excess of access that's been with us for a while (since broadband, but escalating with YouTube and the streaming services), modes of listening that cut across history, genre, geography and biography.
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