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Dept. of Smaller Departments | Sasha Frere-Jones
Topic: Arts 10:03 pm EDT, Jun 18, 2008

Your daily McLuhan:

JEFF LEEDS, former NYT music reporter: I’m not sure that it’s so easy anymore to write about the art without acknowledging the commerce or vice versa ... I think the message and the medium are much more intertwined than they were ten years ago.

SASHA FRERE-JONES, who writes about music at The New Yorker: This behavior parallels the world of online friendships, at least in form. People who could just as easily call or e-mail each other decide to make conversations public through blogs or Twitter or MySpace comments. The platform chosen for each message changes the effect of the words, who can read them, and how long they will hang in the air. (The Web is creating a multiple-exposure version of memory: words remain, reappearing over and over, even if nothing more than cocktail chat. “Nice dress!” echoes in the hall of mirrored servers. An LOL is not an LOL is not an LOL.)

LEEDS: I think that sort of transparency, where we’re all declaring our positions publicly, is here to stay. In music it means that all these little tribes and congregations of fans can mobilize in really powerful ways. And that in turn is contributing so much to the changes you see in the relationship between the artists and the machinery, the industry underneath and around them. It’s a crucial space to watch. I always think of music as Patient Zero in all the disorder that is changing everything in entertainment and media, including, by the way, newspapers. It’s worth paying close attention.

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