sadmanbarty
Well-known member
"inevitable retreats and acts of collective cultural cowardice. i do think music acts as a gauge of something real. i do think that space is opened up by the genuinely new. and that music like this is a refusal of the frontier, not just on the part of fatboy slim but on the part of the collective.”
Luke Davis, in context of Fatboy Slim
my interpretation of this is that hardcore had high degrees of sonic innovation, social energy and cultural currency. big beat harnessed/misappropriated those things to varying extents and with them performed an act of cultural cowardice.
i assume most of us agree that the same thing happened with grime and stormzy.
so a few things:
1) what other examples are there?
2) what are the mechanics of it; what exactly does a fatboy slim or a stormzy do the the music and culture surrounding music. how do they tamper with the inputs and how does that effect the output?
3) what examples are there of cultural bravery? what are the mechanics of that?
Luke Davis, in context of Fatboy Slim
my interpretation of this is that hardcore had high degrees of sonic innovation, social energy and cultural currency. big beat harnessed/misappropriated those things to varying extents and with them performed an act of cultural cowardice.
i assume most of us agree that the same thing happened with grime and stormzy.
so a few things:
1) what other examples are there?
2) what are the mechanics of it; what exactly does a fatboy slim or a stormzy do the the music and culture surrounding music. how do they tamper with the inputs and how does that effect the output?
3) what examples are there of cultural bravery? what are the mechanics of that?