AGREED! Prior to the modern capitalist practice of remotely distributing music recordings first via broadcast then via internet, it was common for local venues to have a live house band. This is desperately needed today not only to combat the gentrification of culture but also to employ and support local musicians and local music culture. Tech companies are inadvertently helping to create the need for this by their algorithmic fiddlings that constantly push one privileged set of profitable recordings over all others: when the same top 40 playlist is the only thing one can hear wherever one goes, it starts to get pretty dull and boring for listeners. Reestablishing local arts/music events and networks ought to be the highest priority if we ever want to escape consumer capitalism's cultural illiteracy.
@heart.school
3 ай бұрын
Great points and indeed, there's something to be said - in a similar way to buying local and investing in localism economically and in terms of services and produce - for similar approach to supporting the local artists /musicians / radio and for artists who are increasingly demoralised and devalued by the immense oversaturation and competition of the digital attention economy to put there focus closer to home
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