Archäologie CLXXXVII: Four Bands At 50 ... Interconnected
Ein interessanter Essay aus der NYT von Ben Ratliff:
IN April 1962 the Beach Boys recorded “Surfin’ Safari” and “409” at Western Recorders in Los Angeles; the demo tape soon became their first single on Capitol Records. The following month El Gran Combo formed out of the remains of Rafael Cortijo y Su Combo, a brilliant band that had come to symbolize the new Puerto Rican popular music: black, working-class, Cuban-influenced, tight and urban but rustic at the middle. In July Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Brian Jones gave their first performances, as the core of a band called the Rollin’ Stones, at both the Marquee and the Ealing Jazz Club in London. And in November the Chieftains, a group of virtuosos who sought to play traditional Irish music in a new way — in precise, small-group arrangements — started rehearsing at the house of Paddy Moloney, the group’s leader. ..
These are among the first living pop bands to turn 50. Popular musicians have become a different species, healthier and more adaptable. So have their audiences. (So have their lawyers and publicists.) There was a time when pop was predicated on the notion of being disposable; listeners revised their tastes quickly. Now we keep our teenage ears into retirement age.
But we also listen more broadly too, with more power to contextualize, because of music’s easy availability online, and because pop artists are putting more broadly referential art in front of us. So as an experiment, at least, let’s respond to the 50th anniversaries of these four bands differently from how they might like us to: not by seeing them as singular phenomena but as interconnected. ..
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... + One Band disconnected: Zu Jung
Ich bin ein Verlierer, Baby!
Die Band Kraftklub holt den ostdeutschen Diskurs aus dem Museum heraus und bringt ihn dorthin zurück, wo er hingehört: auf die Straße
IN April 1962 the Beach Boys recorded “Surfin’ Safari” and “409” at Western Recorders in Los Angeles; the demo tape soon became their first single on Capitol Records. The following month El Gran Combo formed out of the remains of Rafael Cortijo y Su Combo, a brilliant band that had come to symbolize the new Puerto Rican popular music: black, working-class, Cuban-influenced, tight and urban but rustic at the middle. In July Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Brian Jones gave their first performances, as the core of a band called the Rollin’ Stones, at both the Marquee and the Ealing Jazz Club in London. And in November the Chieftains, a group of virtuosos who sought to play traditional Irish music in a new way — in precise, small-group arrangements — started rehearsing at the house of Paddy Moloney, the group’s leader. ..
These are among the first living pop bands to turn 50. Popular musicians have become a different species, healthier and more adaptable. So have their audiences. (So have their lawyers and publicists.) There was a time when pop was predicated on the notion of being disposable; listeners revised their tastes quickly. Now we keep our teenage ears into retirement age.
But we also listen more broadly too, with more power to contextualize, because of music’s easy availability online, and because pop artists are putting more broadly referential art in front of us. So as an experiment, at least, let’s respond to the 50th anniversaries of these four bands differently from how they might like us to: not by seeing them as singular phenomena but as interconnected. ..
Weiterlesen sei empfohlen!
... + One Band disconnected: Zu Jung
Ich bin ein Verlierer, Baby!
Die Band Kraftklub holt den ostdeutschen Diskurs aus dem Museum heraus und bringt ihn dorthin zurück, wo er hingehört: auf die Straße
gebattmer - 2012/02/13 20:34
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