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Culture over commerce: Towards a new musical landscape

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 6 August, 2010

What is music in society today? Is it a product, the fuel of a commercial industry or is it a culture, a forum for the expression, classification and development of who we are? This is not a straight choice. The answer must be somewhere in the middle, but there is a tension between the two poles that indicates a conflict. This is particularly […]

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Pop culture and counter-culture: Mutually antagonistic symbiosis

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 30 June, 2010

There is a symbiosis between popular culture and counter-culture. Both camps deride, and seem to feel threatened, by the other but they need each-other and form a dynamic system. That dynamism is vital. Cultural evolution is important whether in the mainstream or not, though perhaps for different reasons, and both camps stimulate evolution in the other. The genesis […]

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