Music as social control
Death of a Walrus
Published at the beginning of 1981, shortly after his assassination, this is a text on the death of John Lennon, whose subject is not Lennon himself, but the great lamenting public.
The photo here is of Lennon as a kid.
Death of the walrus (on the death of John Lennon)
“Theory is for the critic of the audience.”
"The idea is not to comfort people ~ not to make them feel better, but to make them feel worse."
The above two quotes are from John Lennon, which the author (Harry Harris), implicitly, turns against him.
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The End Of Music As We Know It
Brief leaflet from the 1980s.
"There isn't much difference between rock 'n' roll and teaching, mind you. It's the same job. You're entertaining delinquents for an hour."
- Sting, ex-teacher.
When The Police disguise themselves as pleasurable, and are accepted as such, then the State's overt cops in blue or in the classroom can retreat into the background.
Reservoir of poses - Gregor Jamroski
This article first appeared in the late 1980’s in an obscure, apparently one-off, magazine called Hopeless Tasks which emerged from Seattle, USA. It’s a neatly stated situationist-influenced critique of pop culture recuperation, bands as entertainment commodities and the weaknesses of punk ‘radicality’.
Source; endangeredphoenix.com
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