Western popular music is the fast food of music, and there is

Was David Byrne the original poseur?

>>71244763
Literally who?

>>71244804
To restrict your listening to English-language pop is like deciding to eat the same meal for the rest of your life. The ''no-surprise surprise,'' as the Holiday Inn advertisement claims, is reassuring, I guess, but lacks kick. As ridiculous as they often sound, the conservative critics of rock-and-roll, and more recently of techno and rave, are not far off the mark. For at it's best, music truly is subversive and dangerous.

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was it autism?

He's right.

>>71244804
what?

Most people don't even properly dig in to Western music though, and there's so much there

There is some terrific music being made all over the world. In fact, there is more music, in sheer quantity, currently defined as world music, than any other kind. Not just kinds of music, but volume of recordings as well. When we talk about world music we find ourselves talking about 99 percent of the music on this planet. It would be strange to imagine, as many multinational corporations seem to, that Western pop holds the copyright on musical creativity.

>>71244916
Yep

The problem is not western music but American imperialism. There is so much non-western pop music that takes cue from it's folk music traditions that is unknown to the world because it doesn't follow American imperialist formulas.

>>71244997
American cultural imperialism, to be more precise.

>>71244763
every place has interesting things going on. most mainstream music is fast food, it's only interesting when it's not.

hahahahahaha who cares

>>71244988
By the way, I don't know if this was taken from his online diary, but his online diary is full of incredibly interesting stuff that he writes. If you're a triggered little /pol/fag who will start sperging out whenever anyone says something not nice about Trump then it might not be for you, but to anyone else, it's really great.

>>71245046
YAAAAAAS SLAY

America, Africa, Angola, Albania or Afghanistan who gives a fuck.

Quality music has no boundaries and borders.

>>71245053
It's from this...

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901EED8163EF930A35753C1A96F958260,&pagewanted=all

>>71244763
David! You're bringing me down, man!

>>71244845
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>>71244997
omg lets fuck

>>71245094
Thank you. What's he up to these days?

>>71245161
No idea, just stumbled upon this article the other day and enjoyed the read and his points.

I like fast food sometimes though

>>71244763
DUDE fuck white ppl lmfao xDDDDD

>>71245591
Where'd he say that?

>>71245161
He's working on a musical about Joan of Arc apparently.

NEW ALBUM FUCKING WHEN. ITS BEEN 5 YEARS SINCE LOVE THIS GIANT.

>>71245685
He probably saw "there are guitar bands in Africa" and his /pol/ instincts automatically took that to mean "I hate white people and I want black men to fuck my wife"

Isn't non-western pop music just a different brand of fast food?

>>71246148
this

fucking poseurs i swear to chirst