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Frank Kogan ([personal profile] koganbot) wrote2009-08-04 06:43 am
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BAN POP MUSIC NOW!

Have been pointed to the Webpage for musoc.org, an activist site with avowed political intent that supports, among other things, the following ideas and policies:

--Art music is objectively superior to pop music.

--If you disagree you are a relativist.

--Anything that is not art music is pop music, so minimalism, 'total' serialism, musique concrète, etc. are pop music.

--Pop music should be BANNED from all public and work places that are not licensed entertainment venues.

--Pop music should be BANNED from children's television and other media.

(h/t Josh Kortbein)

[identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)
hahahahahahahhahahaha, bless. the silly sausages.

i feel slightly dirty for clicking on the link...

ETA:

JEEBUS but that's a badly laid out website, what's with that middle column that goes on forever?
Edited 2009-08-04 12:53 (UTC)

[identity profile] piratemoggy.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 12:59 pm (UTC)(link)
The Department Of What The Fvck is having a busy afternoon, I see.

[identity profile] piratemoggy.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Also incidentally I'm not sure he understands the PRS music licensing policy re: 'entertainment venues' correctly. Workplaces DO have to be licensed to play pop music. And art music actually but y'know.

[identity profile] piratemoggy.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, hairdressers and shops and workplaces and things have to. Dunno how you'd catch a workplace if it was closed to the public or how big a workplace it'd have to be before you needed a license but yeah, everywhere that's conceivably benefitting financially from its use of music.

[identity profile] dubdobdee.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
This may well not be the same in the US, or indeed any other country -- licensing and copyright law changes wildly from state to state...

[identity profile] piratemoggy.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh I know, I was just joking about the dude but it is a fair point.

Actually I think they do have it in the US tho. I do not know much about our copyright sistren and brethren across the sea except that we have to liase with them about Beyonce.

[identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I am fairly sure I looked at this page, or something VERY LIKE IT, in 2000! I am also fairly sure it was Josh who sent me the link.

From the style I suspect that if anyone did agree with him he'd be a bit baffled and verging on upset.

[identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 01:09 pm (UTC)(link)
srsly, i'm going to be looking at this all day now:

http://www.musoc.org/classtraitors.htm

what music-lover can forget the assassination of John Dowland's songs last year on 'Songs from the Labyrinth' by 'Sting', an inexplicably famous popster who can barely sing by pop standards, let alone those of art music;

got to love those scare quotes.

(Anonymous) 2009-08-04 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
found it on jonathan mayhew's blog, wouldn't be surprised if i had stumbled onto it years ago.

[identity profile] hoshuteki.livejournal.com 2009-08-04 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
According to the Wayback Machine, the site dates back to Feb 2001. It certainly doesn't look very modern, quite apart from the opinions expressed...