Carl Remick wrote:
>
> Most contemporary music now seems to me utterly synthetic, mere
> sludge excreted by corporations -- about as transgressive as the Financial
> Accounting Standards Board.
>
This is what the great [not ironic] marxist cultural critic
C Caudwell said about jazz. Pound's opinion of jazz seemed to be
similar. But Pound was pretty good on this sort of nostalgia:
and the laudatores temporis acti
claiming that the sh-t used to be blacker and richer
(Canto XV)
carrol
p.s. But doug's intro was only a bit less silly than the column: "It wouldn't surprise me if a few leftists agreed with some of this." Substitute ANY agent noun for "leftists" & ANY belief for "this" and the proposition remains true. Doug wants to know where i learned to be so charming. I learned it from endless exposure to stupid tautologies written by bright people.