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Pat Darnell and Friends’s last blog post..Nello and Orso weigh in on Penguins: UPDATE !!

Here is something I know for fact, that I have witnessed and been part of.

If a band or an artist wishes to enter into the actual music business, it is conducive to present the act within the confines of a genre. People(fans, musicians) often seem queasy about the fact that a vital component to a successful music career is flat out marketing and promotion.

People that engage in marketing and promotion of music (booking agents, managers, publicists, labels, reviewers) are not at all enthused with talented people that display genre-hopping proclivities. These sorts make their jobs more difficult.

It’s a generalization but, one that I have found to be accurate.

There are many, many times that I have seen this become a determining factor in the musical development of an artist or band. It diverts from a natural course and, makes the process more and more non-musical. In my opinion.

Bob Brozman, a man whose playing and breadth of influences I respect and whose politics I’m less enamored with, said something much more eloquently than I can about punk and thrash and metal and hardcore, but it’s all four-piece bands with heavily compressed dynamics playing loudly through huge stacks, with the similarities much more important than what few distinctions there actually are. And there, the audience is different, too, I guess.

But, in order to be able to intelligently discuss things, you need a classification system. But once you set up the boxes, it seems the coolest artists are the ones that break through them.

Sans Direction’s last blog post..The book I should be writing

Striking similarities:
“Desolating my culture fecundated me. Thereafter, it seemed to me that “language games” implied [that]…. The proper of philosophy is not to have a proper genre. …Jean-François Lyotard was born in Vincennes, France, on August 10, 1924. His father, Jean-Pierre Lyotard, was a [get this--] sales representative.

His mother’s maiden name was Madeleine Cavalli. He was schooled at the Paris Lycées Buffon and Louis-le-Grand, and his youthful aspirations to be a Dominican monk, a painter, an historian, or a novelist… [settled with philosophy]” (http://www.iep.utm.edu/l/Lyotard.htm )

“His works can be roughly divided into three categories: early writings on phenomenology, politics, and the critique of structuralism, the intermediate libidinal philosophy, and later work on postmodernism and the differend. The majority of his work, however, is unified by a consistent view that reality consists of singular events which cannot be represented accurately by rational theory…”

Result: “Trouble ain’t over,” yet! err, still!

Pat’s last blog post..Federico Fellini - Amarcord

Pat’s last blog post..Federico Fellini - Amarcord

Subliminal salesmen are urging me to buy the CD…

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