[microsound] 'that's edutainment'

[guiver ben]

i think politics (and im a politics graduate) are often a poor way to discuss sound/music. 

i like authors / people who are a bit more emotionally literate: i think the alt indie scene (well the more mainstream alt indie scene ) in the 90's was compared by someone to going to church, which i found quite amusing. it was the straight faced ness of it which i think appealed to the joker...sometimes things are so wooden, it bores the shit out of me and kills the life in things. 

satire might be a good place to start. pisses of all those pofaced types to begin with, and brings in humour, which is surely an under-rated quality in any kind of communication. 

that said i wouldnt wish to dismiss anyone who wanted to discuss something they found very serious, i just think there's a danger of taking some things too seriously. and russell brands a situationist, apparently...

can anyone think of a good article / paper they read on music that made them laugh? i'd be most interested. 

best

ben


--- On Tue, 1/20/09, CraqueMat <craque at craque.net> wrote:

> From: CraqueMat <craque at craque.net>
> Subject: Re: [microsound] 'that's edutainment'
> To: microsound at microsound.org
> Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 8:07 PM
> Is there a way to talk about music without using ism's?
> 
> I'm not being an ass, this is genuine curiosity.
> 
> Sometimes I'm bothered by the way I can't be a part
> of a conversation 
> just because I haven't had time to read a book (and I
> read a lot).
> 
> Damian Stewart wrote:
> > Stephen Hastings-King wrote:
> > 
> >> 2. these days, everyone's a situationist.
> > 
> > could you explain this a little? i only came across
> the situationists quite 
> > recently...
> > 
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