| -----Original Message----- | From: Lester Kenyatta Spence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 5:17 PM | | > Interesting point... I'd be tempted to say that techno was the first | > specifically post-industrial tribal music. Other genres of | music, like | > rock'n'roll or hip-hop, have always had tribal aspects to | them, but techno | > is specifically post-industrial. | | This is interesting as well....how are you defining "post-indutrial?"
The dictionary definition is "a period in the development of an economy or nation in which the relative importance of manufacturing lessens and that of services, information, and research grows" - most Western nations are now in a post-industrial state and have been since the late 1970s. Although there have been new genres of music since then besides techno, techno's origins in Detroit - a city which became post-industrial a while before many others, what with the collapse in auto manufacturing there and the subsequent decay of the city - kind of mark it as a genre of music which ties very closely with post-industrialism. Of course, it's easy to say things like that about techno as it is an ambiguous and amorphous genre of music - and it's just as easy to disprove statements like this for exactly the same reason. My perception of techno is that it's a post-industrial genre - and, hey, if we think of 'industrial' as the musical genre rather than the phase of economic development, that makes sense too! Brendan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
