Post #2302220
2026-05-08 21:24 UTC
One thing that has become extremely clear to me as I have done this Other People's Music project for years: even the most unpopular, critically scorned backwaters of music have been deeply influential and have passionate, generations-deep fanbases.
#OtherPeoplesMusic #OPM #IndependentMusic
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@etherdiver@ravenation.club 2026-05-08 21:24
Having grown up in an era of rockism, with its focus on establishing canon and a veneer of "objective greatness" for its anointed subjects, and the accompanying disdain and dismissal bordering on hate speech for anything that challenged that paradigm, it's been eye opening.
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@HernanLG@mastodon.social 2026-05-08 21:26
@etherdiver@ravenation.club There's an audience for everything imaginable. I've always thought that, and heard Miss Tammie Brown say it not so long ago as well
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@Owlor@meow.social 2026-05-09 16:46
@etherdiver@ravenation.club Bandcamp has a bunch of really excellent indie ska music and that's a genre that most people who aren't specifically into it tend to treat like a joke.