Great post but I’m going to be petty just to say that footnote #1 is one of my biggest peeves and I’ve been the one having to buy the meal because that awesome taco truck was cash only and Rich Dude & crew ordered everything
There are at least FOUR forces always at work in the consumption of musical pop culture: 1. The desire to know about something that others don't know about i.e. I listened to them before they got big. 2. The desire for something authentic. 3. The learned habit of skepticism/cynicism. 4. The need to belong/community/tribe. The concept of "industry plants" interacts with 2 and 3.
Great post but I’m going to be petty just to say that footnote #1 is one of my biggest peeves and I’ve been the one having to buy the meal because that awesome taco truck was cash only and Rich Dude & crew ordered everything
There are at least FOUR forces always at work in the consumption of musical pop culture: 1. The desire to know about something that others don't know about i.e. I listened to them before they got big. 2. The desire for something authentic. 3. The learned habit of skepticism/cynicism. 4. The need to belong/community/tribe. The concept of "industry plants" interacts with 2 and 3.
Might hit all 4 in fact. I have a draft essay about the concept of authenticity, not an easy topic to write about.