tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31416501.post116102371944246450..comments2023-12-08T00:45:09.046-08:00Comments on The Fullfillment* Centre: carlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17886258675618058752noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31416501.post-1161170776288757882006-10-18T04:26:00.000-07:002006-10-18T04:26:00.000-07:00Interesting point about the 'vocabulary' of cinema...Interesting point about the 'vocabulary' of cinema. Once you've been told about a cinematic technique, for example 'jump cut' or 'tracking shot', its very easy to pick identify instances of same when they occur in a movie you're watching.<BR/><BR/>However, even if you understand a musical concept (for example key change/modulation, time signature, harmonic rhyhm) there's no gaurantee you'll be able to 'hear' these things in a piece of music you're listening to.<BR/><BR/>To do so requires an 'ear', (which presumably can be innate or cultivated or both).<BR/><BR/>That's why most music journalism is a waste of time. Most journalists lack a knowledge of the concepts or an 'ear' with which to idetnify them or both.<BR/><BR/>Music journalism, then, can be reduce to the following set of statemnets repeated ad nauseum: <BR/><BR/>1) I like/ don't like this song<BR/>2) This ong reminds of this other song.<BR/>3) The artists who play this song are/ are not well dressed and fashionable.<BR/><BR/>It's like trying to critique 'This side of Paradise' without knowing waht a senetnce is!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31416501.post-1161079832112707912006-10-17T03:10:00.000-07:002006-10-17T03:10:00.000-07:00A literary equivalent of Ace of Spades? Now there'...A literary equivalent of Ace of Spades? Now there's a challenge I gots to rise to - are comics admissable, or is that cheating. Or will it just lead to more soul searching on the elitist vs. populist see-saw...?<BR/><BR/>How about rock/pop is journalism? I just re-read Hunter S's Generation of Swine and you can see it there - a formula, the same riffs ('cheap punk' 'mean bastard' 'like dogs' etc etc). A two page diatribe built to a standard on a production line, that's what the punters want... Boom! Lemmy cranks out another album, if it ain't broke don't fix it.<BR/><BR/>"...storing-up of hip cultural capital..." Yup, that sums up 18 years of listening to metal - shit's gotta be popular at some point, right? It worked for me and country music...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com