{"id":1871,"date":"2014-06-22T16:58:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T23:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2014-06-22T16:58:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T23:58:21","slug":"american-top-40-poptimism-and-winner-take-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2014\/06\/american-top-40-poptimism-and-winner-take-all.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;American Top 40,&#8221; Poptimism and Winner-Take-All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;plD2J41Igr64VnQSKm3MiH74DQcHRIgZ&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>IS it possible to hate Casey Kasem? Probably not. His show was a lot of fun, and he was the voice of Shaggy. But his death is being received in an odd way that&#8217;s unfair to him and wrong about the way culture, popularity and economics work. In short, he&#8217;s being drafted into a war in which he never fought.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Casey_Kasem.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1872\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Casey_Kasem.jpg\" alt=\"Casey_Kasem\" width=\"202\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My new <a title=\"ST on Casey Kasem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/06\/22\/casey_kasem_ronald_reagan_and_musics_1_percent_artificial_popularity_is_not_democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a> in Salon gets into some of this. Prepare to see your humble blogger denounced as pernicious, elitist, indier-than-thou rockist.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I especially welcome comments on this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;plD2J41Igr64VnQSKm3MiH74DQcHRIgZ&#8221;] IS it possible to hate Casey Kasem? Probably not. His show was a lot of fun, and he was the voice of Shaggy. But his death is being received in an odd way that&#8217;s unfair to him and wrong about the way culture, popularity and economics work. In short, he&#8217;s being drafted into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165,39,79,589,84,178,38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-80s","7":"category-creative-class","8":"category-critics","9":"category-economy","10":"category-radio","11":"category-record-stores","12":"category-rock-music","13":"entry","14":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}