Krzysztof Kieslowski - musicolog.com

It strengthens my belief that there’s something to this idea of musicto – the music that Millenials and Gen Z grew up with is different to ours, but I bet the stories that surround those songs are kinda the same. Look back and you’ll see us trying to fit in, falling in love, changing behaviors for a crush or coming together over a shared lyric or i... See more

Music has no purpose, it merely brings together people’s dreams, fragilities, licentiousness and weirdness. It can bring masses of people together through that. As much as those in the underground find each other, so do the Swifties and The ARMY. Scale, here, doesn’t stop the human capacity of bonding through music and the exchange of identity.

Here is where culture enters the picture. I mean“culture” in its anthropological rather than artisticsense. What values and practices can hold people to-gether as the institutions in which they live fragment? My generation suffered from a want of imagination inanswering this question, in advancing the virtues ofsmall-scale community. Co

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