Diatribe Of The Day: The Silent Revolution
The one central thesis I have on the state of music, and my primary inspiration to do this blog, is that I believe in the grand history of music we are at a very unique and overwhelmingly positive time. Over the course of most of this decade, there has been this slow and steady renaissance of great music happening, and unlike the advent of Rock ‘n’ Roll or the early ’90s Grunge movement, the regular joe average person has no idea that it even exists. I’ve referred to it as “The Silent Revolution” because of the fundamentally different nature of what is happening now relative to those other major turning points in recent music history. There is no explosion, there is no easily discernible pop culture impact that can be neatly identified. But, there is an era of music and new rules and philosophies being carved out aided almost entirely by the Internet. An outsider who isn’t hip to what is going on would look at the state of music now and think we are in a horrible time, but everyday someone new discovers this alternative dimension where people have the power to find the music that best satisfies their personal taste, rather than a world of music where a few elites control access and dictate to the masses what they should listen to. At the beginning of this decade, music had become almost entirely a commodity where the Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys reigned, and it was difficult to find music as art. Just seven years later so much has changed. Forces are in motion that cannot be stopped in the short term, and although the long term future is any one’s guess, I remain very optimistic.
I bring this up now because as I’m bored and insomniacing, I decided to check the OiNK webpage randomly and they have a link to an amazing article that I think explains the distribution side of this revolution more eloquently than I could. Go take a minute and read this tremendous article:
- Posted by Davy Minor on December 24, 2007 at 6:43 am
