If you're tired of the hype around Beirut and would like to read a blog entry/article about Zach Condon and his music that isn't fawning, check out Stu Sherman's "The Triumph of Musical Tourists" at PopMatters. It's a well-researched piece on how Beirut's music is disingenuous and inauthentic. While I can see where Sherman is coming from, I take issue with some of things he writes, especially toward the end of the essay. I'll have a response sometime during this weekend, whenever I have the energy.
Right now, I'm recovering from watching Spiderman 3, which is the topic of yet another blog entry in the very near future (most likely tomorrow).
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1 comment:
Meh. I thought the article was really whack. Basically, what the writer was saying was that you can't adapt music styles of cultures other than your own, only because you weren't born of it?
Sure, Zach Condon might not be completely connected with the roots of his music, and he may have embraced the cultures in a very ideal manner. But, the music that spawns from that is beautiful to listen to.
Music is music. You listen. You like.
Really, no other way to go about it.
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