Music is everywhere.
Yet musical culture, with its myriad facets, has vanished, absorbed into a single, all-encompassing media perspective. The term "rock-star" is now used as an adjective that has nothing to do with music; living examples number fewer than a dozen, and less than a handful of these are genuine, consequential artists. The dead bury the dead.
Ultimately, the artist must shoulder the burden of the real, wherever it leads.
Yet musical culture, with its myriad facets, has vanished, absorbed into a single, all-encompassing media perspective. The term "rock-star" is now used as an adjective that has nothing to do with music; living examples number fewer than a dozen, and less than a handful of these are genuine, consequential artists. The dead bury the dead.
Ultimately, the artist must shoulder the burden of the real, wherever it leads.
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