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"Rock (i.e., the music made by straight white guys with largely modernist aesthetics) used to be so synonymous with the vanguard of the music industry that the industry’s main historical institution is called The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but the genre has lost its edge both commercially and critically, as fans and music writers have turned towards other styles.
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So, if both traditional gender and race binaries and the rock/pop hierarchy all rely on the same conceptual architecture as the classically liberal public/private distinction, it’s no surprise they both collapse once fifty years of neoliberalization in politics and culture have increasingly eliminated anything resembling “the public” and reduced everything to private markets, private responsibility, personalized algorithmic feeds, and so on.
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One thing that is clear to me is that any alternative to the resilience/agrievement opposition will not be found in a particular style or genre, but in an orientation toward private property. It will be a public vibe, a collective vibe, one where the responsibility for producing art and reproducing life are mutually shared and distributed."
https://itsherfactory.substack.com/p/from-the-gendered-poprock-binary