{"id":568,"date":"2012-03-07T23:43:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T03:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/?p=568"},"modified":"2016-09-25T23:30:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T03:30:14","slug":"serendipitous-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/07\/serendipitous-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Serendipitous Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

My somewhat rambling article on style<\/a> from Sunday night\/Monday morning found some serendipitous company today in Colin Holter’s article<\/a>\u00a0on NewMusicBox.org<\/a><\/em>. The piece was his reaction to a bad review by Pitchfork<\/em>\u00a0and a discussion of “indie-classical,” also written about by Pitchfork<\/em> here<\/a>.\u00a0I of course know I’m not the cause of the article – it’s on a separate topic, and I’m not that narcissistic. What really piqued my interest was that it provided a good example (I think) of just what I wrote about: style, jargon, and canon.<\/p>\n

I’m not here to be snarky. While that generally creates more traffic, this isn’t that kind of blog. But I do find it curious that instead of critically avenging the abysmally-reviewed musical work, Holter goes on to nit-pick the meaning of a style via unloading jargon and canonical references. At the end of the article I was left with the following thoughts:
\n\u2022 What about Travis Morrison’s “extraordinary solo debut”? Why is o.o stars offensive?
\n\u2022 I’m on the same page as Colin concerning a “definition” of indie (and the mention of the protohipster!)
\n\u2022 Why is everyone so caught up on the stylistic label? Whether a composition is labeled “indie-classical” or “progressive grindcore” (a description of TOOL<\/a> I once read in the late nineties, its absurdity is why it’s stuck with me ever since) should be secondary to whether or not it’s musically<\/em> good. Once again, unfortunately, the style has trumped the content.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

On another front, there were a couple links I intended to mention last week but decided against it. (Again, I’d rather this blog not be reduced a Tumblr-like series of links.) However, since I’m on the subject of timing, I thought it was funny that my MTH-V post on Tricky<\/a> in early January was followed a few weeks later by this NPR article on trip-hop<\/a>. (Why they don’t link to Tricky’s main site<\/a>\u00a0in the first paragraph, since there’s no NPR page for him, is beyond me.) Then, a few weeks later (or, rather, last week) there was this\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/em> announcement<\/a> about an upcoming Tricky performance. While I’d like to think that cosmically I was somehow involved in those other two posts, I know it’s simply a coincidence.<\/p>\n

Just some interesting nuggets from my RSS aggregator. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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