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May. 4th, 2007 10:22 am![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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poptimistsI got absorbed enough in this Guardian piece to miss my tube stop:
http://music.guardian.co.uk/folk/story/0,,2071468,00.html
A lot of its anecdotal material is good and I can't much disagree with the central argument (tho as they admit Tosches summarises it more neatly) but I didn't like the conclusion - even as a staunch poptimist "the inherent democracy of pop junk" is a MASSIVE handwave.
http://music.guardian.co.uk/folk/story/0,,2071468,00.html
A lot of its anecdotal material is good and I can't much disagree with the central argument (tho as they admit Tosches summarises it more neatly) but I didn't like the conclusion - even as a staunch poptimist "the inherent democracy of pop junk" is a MASSIVE handwave.
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Date: 2007-05-04 09:42 am (UTC)(i am not certain, but that was my understanding of how they did their field recordings)
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