Any day now music is going to secede from the industry </hopeful>

In all seriousness though, as guilty as I can be when there isn't a wealth of discussion about actual music, discussing the industry is ho hum. Same goes for academia which is what I was pointing out in a recent post. If you can't talk about the actual music, who gives a fuck about your other thoughts on the matter.

But then again these discussions don't even pose themselves to be about music any more. It's about the media, and in that regard I'm in the AFKAP camp of things. When the media takes precedent over the music.... But of course we are living in the age of "The medium is the massage" so that's to be expected.

I've been throwing around quotes from this piece -http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/6445/ a lot of late and might as well throw two quotes out there:

"To me, if music can’t be shared, I’m not interested in it. However, once I digitize these objects and they enter into the file sharing ecosystem, they become alive for me again."

"As a matter of fact, records that I’ve been craving for years (such as the complete recordings of Jean Cocteau, which we just posted on Ubu) are languishing unlistened-to. I’ll never get to them either, because I’m more interested in the hunt than I am in the prey. The minute I get something, I just crave more. And so something has really changed – and I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed have become profoundly more intriguing than the cultural artifact itself. What we’ve experienced is an inversion of consumption, one in which we’ve come to prefer the acts of acquisition over that which we are acquiring, the bottles over the wine."

This is from the founder of the Ubu web a site that's supposed to be all about the music.

IMO we've outgrown the 'industry'. Artists, listeners and fans. All have out grown them. BUt the industry itself will not let go. It's fighting for its relevance. It comes down on the actual music in order to validate the importance of its role in bringing said music to you. It hypes up its achievements, teaches us its buzz words, and keeps us discussing its problems as if they are our own. THIS keeps the industry alive, and it has taught us that it being alive is synonymous with music being alive. That is categorically false. Music can live without the industry, but the industry without the music is just pr and advertising. Oh wait that's what it is now.

So the question is, what do you want to discuss, pr and advertising, or music.

#musiccivilwar

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