Notes for 4/26/07
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- I have some review in Flagpole this week: The Rosebuds, and an Athens band who I love to death called Telenovela. Here's their MySpace if you want to check out the toonz; three of their best songs are there.
- I also had a review of LCD Soundsystem a couple weeks back that I think I missed, talking about the album in terms of sequencing, as well as a review of Adult.
- And yet more reviews in the new issue of Under the Radar, though I don't entirely remember of what. Cornelius and the Danielson DVD for sure; also Bang Gang and...uh...well, I can't remember. Anyway, they're not online.
- Great, broad post about EMP at Dial M for Musicology:
So what looks like soulless professionalism to people outside of academia"Suspicion of aesthetic pleasure"? Uh oh.
is really just a way of keeping things interesting. Still, things have gotten to
the point where aesthetic advocacy (i.e., saying something is awesome) is
considered not only unprofessional but wrong. Saying Wagner is awesome -- or,
for instance, pointing to the opening contrabassoon E-flat of Das Rheingold and
discussing how all the exfoliating little figures that grow out of that one note
create a musical image for creation itself and then saying now that's awesome --
seems politically regressive. I've written about this
suspicion of aesthetic pleasure before. But what struck me about the EMP pop
conference was how most of its participants seemed to be pretty comfortable
geeking out on their topics, and that the fanboy tone that crept into the
sessions didn't make them any less intellectually stimulating.
Labels: academia, emp, flagpole, musicology, notes, reviews, utr
posted by Mike B. @ 12:43 AM
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