Ive finally now seen the recent film production of Coriolanus , starring and directed by Ralph Fiennes, and it is as I feared , a failure. Its one of these updating adaptations of a Shakespeare playin this case the politics and warfare of the early Roman city-state gets refitted . . . . Continue Reading »
Rock and disco, the typical middle-class alternatives to Afro-American popular music, are inferior forms of music; however, as Pete Townsend helped us to see in the last Songbook post , it may usually be too difficult, and is (arguably) inauthentic anyhow, for middle class persons to play . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . the rock and roll apparatus affectively organizes the everyday life of its fans by differentially cathecting the various fragments it excorporates along these three axes. . . . It involves vectors (quantities having both magnitude and direction) that are removed from the hegemonic . . . . Continue Reading »