In Slate today, a piece by me on "recreativity"
- a critique of the emerging orthodoxy of "everything is a remix" /
"originality is a myth" / "no such thing as genius", in terms of its
relationship to digital culture and to dance music ideas that are frankly a bit stale at this point.
(Reading some of the arguments being made
these past few years from critics, academics, artists, etc you can't
help wondering if these dudes heard a Girl Talk CD and had their minds blown.)
Or, old fashioned modernism versus what is now equally old fashioned postmodernism.
"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
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Friday, October 5, 2012
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