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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Sparked by a familiar controversy rearing its head on The Lex's LJ, I thought maybe a poll would help us get further into this question. (Let's not go all ILM here, please.)

[Poll #663010]

The underlying question maybe:"Is it important for your consumption of music to reflect your social and political beliefs?" (another old ILM favourite). When the choice to be made is a negative one, a lot of people say "yes" - someone who hates homophobia may well boycott records by an act they see as homophobic. But my guess is people who believe in racial equality don't make 'positive' choices to support that in their music consumption (for instance). And why should they, if they don't like the music? But I think it's an interesting area.

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[zenith.livejournal.com]

I think my answer to the second question is sort of bound up in theories about culture and politics - i.e., my ideal is that everyone listens to whatever* they want, across a level playing field. However, we don't have that level playing field. We have a field in which hierarchies exist but they're often invisible-ised, for want of a better term. So one sometimes has to make a conscious effort to extend the range of the types of people who make the music you listen to, in order to achieve an actual normality, rather than the illusory normality which is in fact heavily influenced by (often quite subtle) social/cultural/political inequalities and 'isms'.

*Except the Kilroy Chiefs, obviously.