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- Play it again, Mr. Carter.<\/b> Whether it’s Top 40 radio or an iPod on a constant playlist loop, most ears love the repetition of songs. John Zorn tracks? Not so much, apparently. I had a recent letter from a Counterstream<\/a> listener: “In the past 8 months, you’ve played the same Zorn track three times between 5 and 6 a.m. Please rotate your programming.” Well, then. When I love a song, I listen to it over and over again. However, I have never done this with a piece of “new music” unless I was reviewing a recording. Like working at the Dairy Queen and ingesting no ice cream, sometimes I think I avoid getting addicted because new music is my job. Secretly, I’ve often wondered if this makes me a fraud.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
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- Who’s afraid of the Internet?<\/b> Writers, it seems. First, the freakin’ bloggers were going to take the pros out of the game. Now, the commenters criticize them to the point that they\u00c2\u00a0flee from the public persecution<\/a>. The Internet is a dangerous playground. Not everyone always\u00c2\u00a0gets where you’re coming from<\/a> and the whole scene can get pretty crass. We could all just be Minnesota nice, but is there something to be gained intellectually when you know your fellow readers\/writers won’t hesitate to take you down a peg? Is that what a world that types 5 billion words every minute needs?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
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- The Long Tail might save us from obscurity, but it may hang us first.<\/b> Chris Anderson gave us hope that even if we didn’t sell a million records up front, our Best of Beethoven albums might come out ahead over a period of many years. Well put that confetti back in the tube, kids. The dude may have had things all wrong<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
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As I’ve mentioned in this space before, stereotypes can be evil inhibitors of progress, but we all carry them around with us. In the spirit of intervention, I thought I’d throw a few things I’ve heard lately out into the road (and maybe under the bus). People of a certain age think louder music = […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-45","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- The Long Tail might save us from obscurity, but it may hang us first.<\/b> Chris Anderson gave us hope that even if we didn’t sell a million records up front, our Best of Beethoven albums might come out ahead over a period of many years. Well put that confetti back in the tube, kids. The dude may have had things all wrong<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Who’s afraid of the Internet?<\/b> Writers, it seems. First, the freakin’ bloggers were going to take the pros out of the game. Now, the commenters criticize them to the point that they\u00c2\u00a0flee from the public persecution<\/a>. The Internet is a dangerous playground. Not everyone always\u00c2\u00a0gets where you’re coming from<\/a> and the whole scene can get pretty crass. We could all just be Minnesota nice, but is there something to be gained intellectually when you know your fellow readers\/writers won’t hesitate to take you down a peg? Is that what a world that types 5 billion words every minute needs?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n