frivolity pop

a pop up from some old search topic reports JF saying the following: “In his conference presentation John Hutnyk (see this volume) indicated that even to discuss music at a time of global terror and of the demonization of the Asian minority populations across Europe is frivolous”. yikes. I cannot remember this from the time, but it makes me wonder if the smirk of presentational irony, rhetorical, self-critical, self-abasement, and a certain posed despair, just did not translate well to Scandinavia, but I remember the much-missed Dave Watts’s enthusiasm when I said I did not want to talk about music and politics about twenty times in the one talk… Took some time to search out the article from COLLeGIUM, uncollected as it was a mash-up of things that eventually went into the book Pantomime Terror, but for sure I was not only saying musicians should spend all their time dedicated ‘to advancing the political struggle against oppression and for the advanced forms of socialism and…