Friday, August 30, 2002
Music is often described as "transportive". What if "local" happens to be where we always land?
"All too often, though, even current approaches to popular music take little or no account of its roles in cultures other than the Anglo-American, and assume that statements about what is increasingly (and in my view dangerously) defined as the global can be applied to the local, in the lack of ‘any overt acknowledgement of the specificity of the dominant culture, which is simply assumed to be the all-encompassing norm. This is the basis of its power."
Popular Music as if Small Societies Mattered
¶ 8/30/2002 07:32:00 AM
"All too often, though, even current approaches to popular music take little or no account of its roles in cultures other than the Anglo-American, and assume that statements about what is increasingly (and in my view dangerously) defined as the global can be applied to the local, in the lack of ‘any overt acknowledgement of the specificity of the dominant culture, which is simply assumed to be the all-encompassing norm. This is the basis of its power."
Popular Music as if Small Societies Mattered
¶ 8/30/2002 07:32:00 AM
