The Future of Rock and Roll: 97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence on JSTOR
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The Future of Rock and Roll: 97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence on JSTOR
Right now, rock music still projects the illusion of a universe containing multitudes. But it won’t seem that way in three hundred years, because nothing in the culture ever does. It will eventually be explained by one artist.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
One could trace the equally strange trajectory that created rock and roll out of African and Scots-Irish musical traditions in the American South, then sent rock and roll around the world, so that a sound that had once been endemic to the South was intrinsic to dissent in Europe’s east. Or the ricocheting trajectory by which Thoreau, abolitionists,
... See moreRebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
There is too much preexisting mediated history to easily upend the status quo. The meaning of rock—at least in a broad sense—has already calcified. “As far as what artists get anointed, I suppose it’s just whoever or whatever embodies those [central] attributes in the simplest, most direct way,” Petrusich concludes. “When I think of rock ’n’ roll,
... See moreChuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
So what makes sense is to build new institutions from the rubble of the independence economy, which looks like reimagining very useful organizations like the newspaper or the record label from the bottom up, based upon agreements between previously atomized creators.
George Howard • Web3 As An Interdependent Economy: A Conversation With Mat Dryhurst
What does a musician's world look like when their community is the record label?