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I was on the radio a couple of nights ago, Resonance FM in London, and you can now hear it as a stream over at Freaky Trigger. I'm on for seven minutes, prerecorded, coming in the middle of a strong discussion about kids and (and in) pop music, the panel hosted by Elisha Sessions and featuring Alex Macpherson, Alix Campbell, and Magnus Anderson.
Elisha's Skypephone recorder makes it seem as if he's caught me in a cavern, in a canyon, excavating for a mine, but what I say is discernible. I'm curious if any of you have an opinion on that quote of mine up top ("popular music doesn't really seem to have a viable adulthood, especially for white people"), or on what I say a little earlier, about most people no longer playing music themselves, about their not really being in the music. Of course, I've argued the opposite elsewhere, insisting that blogging and chattering and driving with the bass beating in your car etc. are creative ways of being in the music, that music encompasses the whole thing. But I wonder how many adults actually are involved daily in making musical sounds, not just switching the sounds on and switching on their opinions. I have a couple of friends who are in church choirs, and some who are musicians, but I'll wager that a smaller percentage participate in musicmaking than would have a hundred years ago, when e.g. many homes had pianos.
Brenda Lee Dynamite by beatnickbandit
Elisha's Skypephone recorder makes it seem as if he's caught me in a cavern, in a canyon, excavating for a mine, but what I say is discernible. I'm curious if any of you have an opinion on that quote of mine up top ("popular music doesn't really seem to have a viable adulthood, especially for white people"), or on what I say a little earlier, about most people no longer playing music themselves, about their not really being in the music. Of course, I've argued the opposite elsewhere, insisting that blogging and chattering and driving with the bass beating in your car etc. are creative ways of being in the music, that music encompasses the whole thing. But I wonder how many adults actually are involved daily in making musical sounds, not just switching the sounds on and switching on their opinions. I have a couple of friends who are in church choirs, and some who are musicians, but I'll wager that a smaller percentage participate in musicmaking than would have a hundred years ago, when e.g. many homes had pianos.
Brenda Lee Dynamite by beatnickbandit
