I should have made things clearer - the key thing about the anticontext is that they're the people whose not-listening/not-understanding/not-liking of the music MATTERS from within yr personal context.
eg. "Something is happening but you don't know what it is, do you Mr Jones" - this is less powerful if Mr Jones doesn't know what it is because Mr Jones is a 60-year old woman in Ulan Bator.
and: "Of course the real fans aren't buying it" and "Lady if you have to ask you'll never know" - some of the most powerful, resonant mythic rock stances rely on the invocation of the anticontext.
So "not getting" is usually more important than "not knowing about" in the anticontext. But what I'm asking is - was this true in the 60s, or during punk, or acid house, or any other surge moment in which the average man in the street was shifted into the anticontext simply because knowing what was happening felt so significant?
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Date: 2007-10-05 09:26 am (UTC)eg. "Something is happening but you don't know what it is, do you Mr Jones" - this is less powerful if Mr Jones doesn't know what it is because Mr Jones is a 60-year old woman in Ulan Bator.
and: "Of course the real fans aren't buying it" and "Lady if you have to ask you'll never know" - some of the most powerful, resonant mythic rock stances rely on the invocation of the anticontext.
So "not getting" is usually more important than "not knowing about" in the anticontext. But what I'm asking is - was this true in the 60s, or during punk, or acid house, or any other surge moment in which the average man in the street was shifted into the anticontext simply because knowing what was happening felt so significant?