Poptimists July Roundup

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Some of the most interesting threads from last month:

The ethics of music listing on social networking sites
Where R UK female musicians plz?
Sinatra canon - "Does Poptimism only begin with rock'n'roll?"
Last.FM top artists - what does it all mean?
MARK MAH MIXTAPE: dubdobdee's youthmobb
Poptimists vs The Mercury
Pop On TV gordian knotfest
Amerie vs Rihanna
Suicidal! Suicidal!
What are words worth?

Lots of other good stuff - yesterday's convos about P5 and the sound of now, the 06 vs 07 chat on the Now poll, Kate Nash and Fergie howls in the Year In Pop - but one has to stop somewhere. Let me know if you think this kind of round-up is a good idea. (I might post it to FT too)

And now...

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Comments

Re: subtext

[koganbot]

I remember in a college class Kai Erikson told us that in the 19th and early 20th century immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe transported the rural peasant culture of Europe to the cities of America. A few years later I was living on the Lower East Side and said to myself, "Yes, and now bohemians have transported the culture of the suburban high school to what used to be the immigrant neighborhoods of New York, but with the wallflowers in ascendence." But I didn't mean that derogatorily, as at the time (c. 1978) it was a pretty interesting bohemia.