Destranged music culture conditions acceptance of capitalist ordinariness.

Evidence

Music culture was central to the projection of the futures which have been lost. The term music culture is crucial here, because it is the culture constellated around music (fashion, discourse, cover art) that has been as important as the music itself in conjuring seductively unfamiliar worlds. The destranging of music culture in the 21st century – the ghastly return of industry moguls and boys next door to mainstream pop; the premium put on ‘reality’ in popular entertainment; the increased tendency of those in music culture to dress and look like digitally and surgically enhanced versions of regular folk; the emphasis placed on gymnastic emoting in singing – has played a major role in conditioning us to accept consumer capitalism’s model of ordinariness. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 71

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Pop melancholy marks the moment a commodity achieves selfconsciousness — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 454; Hip-hop authenticity claims encode a depoliticised acceptance of capitalist reality — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1536; Music can serve as a primary gateway into white supremacist culture — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 343 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Hip-hop authenticity claims encode a depoliticised acceptance of capitalist reality #exemplifies (0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1536