Sunday, October 21, 2007

FOOTNOTES # 16 / CHAPTER 15: GHOST DANCE: 2-TONE AND THE SKA RESURRECTION

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LottieP said...

I always thought the mod scene were all about musical snobbery though, which perhaps paradoxically was not really born out of true appreciation for the music, but rather was focused on what signals your devotion to the sound was sending about you - better than the rest? Just as you'd make sure your clothes were spelling out just how superior you really were. In these movements sometimes music is peripheral even when it's ostensibly defining the culture.

The best example of this was the way that it appeared that northern soul boys didn't actually want anyone else to like "their" music, and just finding the rarest sounds was more important than what they actually sounded like...

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