the listener is also a pop-maker! an (old-skool) opera is not well able to explore the stage-rushing audience as they "become" the auteurs (not those auteurs)*; but the current shape of the relationship between star and audience, and between (cowelloid) svengali-producer and malleable but utterly hungry wannabe, is i think WAY more contested and contestable
*(in fact the problem with quadrophenia AS an opera abt this is that it has to confuse the MODFAN'S rejection of his idols with his ARRIVAL at ARTISTIC CONTROL AND MATURITY: ie by hatin on sting phil daniels BECOMES pete townshend) (which doesn't fly -- it's another version of the punk-rock contradiction i think)
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ts: quadrophenia vs xenomania
Date: 2007-11-19 04:38 pm (UTC)*(in fact the problem with quadrophenia AS an opera abt this is that it has to confuse the MODFAN'S rejection of his idols with his ARRIVAL at ARTISTIC CONTROL AND MATURITY: ie by hatin on sting phil daniels BECOMES pete townshend) (which doesn't fly -- it's another version of the punk-rock contradiction i think)