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For centuries the musicologists and professional musicians and their patrons tended to look upon music as something apart from life. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The recording industry and the purveyors of sheet music made no effort to find out the musical tastes of the people living in the hinterlands. And they cared not at all for the musical products of these people. aus: bill c. malone, country music u.s.a., university of texas press
"life is the only thing worth living for" see: collected works of flipper, generic flipper, subterranean records ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Was hat das sogenannt authentische urbane Arbeitslebensgefühl mit Turnschuhen zu tun? Siehe weiter unten! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrea Juno: You're concentrating on making the sacred in everyday life. Kendra Smith: That's what I hope to do. As far as I see, there shouldn't be a division. We put the so-called sacred in buildings: in temples and churches. But it should be integrated, part of your everyday life. (...) Work should be something you love, something that you don't want to avoid.
I had an argument with one woman who was a critic and a big fan. She said our culture idolizes musicians. I said, no, it actually degrades them. It's kind of a toss-up however you look at it. People do idolize musicians, but only for the sheer pleasure of feeling like they have the power to create them and bring them down. (...) KS: we're talking now about doing art, or how you live your life. A lot of it has to with being submissive to your life, and accepting everything that comes at you. That's like accepting the goddess, because the world that manifests around you is She. To make discriminations against this or that- to bemoan a certain curse in your life- is a ridiculous approach. AJ:You mean having sort of polarized hatred. KS:Saying, "I want only good to happen to me." Or even to think that good exists without also that which appears to you to be bad. That's the whole kind of Christian Science thing our society wants- all flowery and light. We don't want to acknowledge the dark, yet we're continually going that way. It gives the other side a power that's beyond our control to process. AJ: And there's this heavy "victim" kind of polarity , like the dogma:"All men are evil!" KS:It's all attachment . Either it goes through you, or you attach to one side or the other side. People are encouraged to think in polarities but most of our dilemmas can be solved by not thinking in polarities. (Kendra Smith lives self-sufficiently in rural california, without electricity, since the late 80ies)
the quotations are from the book: angry women in rock by andrea juno, juno books.Look for it and read it ! It contains various very interesting interviews. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ When I became a punk, my main fight was against the people who were around me - friends. Ian Mac Kaye 
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