Still Too Soon To Know

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Three questions, which I will try and phrase right - all related though.

They're about importance. For once I'm not talking about importance to one's personal listening history, emotional development etc. I'm interested in how we as individuals perceive "music history" and "historical significance" while it's happening.

The question:

1. What moment, or trend or era in music have you felt was most important while it was happening?

2. Have there been any moments you felt at the time were important, which don't seem as important with hindsight.

3. When you first became aware of pop music as something which had a history, what seemed to you the most important things in the previous ten years?

Comments

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

something always stops me seeing the Smiths as 'important' even though i (eventually) loved them to bits and could see plainly how much they were distorting the space-pop continuum.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

ooh i like the idea that history is what distorts the (uniformity of the) continuum

you can extend the metaphor to include "stars" and "gravity"!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Wasn't this the message of that Alan Moore futur shock that we linked to on the Life on M/A/R/R/S* thread.

*someone use this somewhere pls

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

(OMGZ)

am i mad (BROTHERS AND SISTERS)
in a coma (WE'RE GONNA GET YOU)
or back in time (DANCE! DANCE!)

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Anniecartwright (the first time i ever she see dance)

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

I keep meaning to ask you Mark - have you read Latour?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

bruno? none (tho if you do mean him i HAVE read some michel serres, who wz i believe his mentor) (haha on wikipedia BL is doing the dr evil face!)

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

yes bruno. he was just bangin on about Serres in the bit i was reading on the bus. i'm considering doing 1 of his books for the 'top 5 science' on FT. actually considering doing 2 books as 1 (as they go together too well) but tho book 1 is v straight forward, 2 wobbles around with more theory than i can keep straight before landing on safer shores at the end of each section.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I really like Serres, but I feel ambivalent about Latour! I find it interesting that Serres gets Englished via the history / sociology of science people because they are clearly (rightly!) discomforted by some of what he says. I can't remember where, but there's a particular apology for Serres comparison of the Challenger explosion to some ancient practice of burning men alive in a representation of a God, that sticks in the mind!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i MUST finish "We have never been modern" and then read it through again after asking yous two for some help!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

"influence at a distance" :-)